Re: AW: AW: "unable to remap" error with git svn after upgrade to Win10

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 15, 2015, 10:50 UTC
Message-ID: <1b9f222b56504c59c369678b33c02583@www.dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <8e9a6445d54343708757e16052539b6a@CIPEXMB03N1.ci04.de>

Hi Christoph,

On 2015-07-14 23:04, Christoph Murczek wrote:

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> thanks for explaining why re-installing fixed my problem. Although I
> still can't wrap my head around why it happened in the first place. It
> could only be caused by Windows moving the base address of one, but
> not the other thus causing the overlap. Sounds weird. But then again,
> what do I know what's going on under the hoods when upgrading to
> Win10. ;)

To help that, I just wrote a wiki page about this very problem:

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/32-bit-issues

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> In regards to your question: Yes I am running 64bit Windows, but the
> 32-bit version of git is the only thing I can download. I just
> double-checked on the webpage, but there's no option to get a 64 bit
> download link, and if there was some logic determining whether I
> should get 32 or 64 bit it puts me in the first bucket for some
> reason.
> I haven't considered building from source yet, mostly because the
> 32bit works fine so far. What would be the benefit? I guess
> performance when dealing with large repos? If you have a 64bit version
> available and need feedback let know. Always happy to help out :)

So I assumed that you found the official web site of Git for Windows 2.x:

    https://git-for-windows.github.io/

Its download link leads to 32-bit/64-bit versions of the installer and the portable Git.

Ciao, Johannes