From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:48:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help!
Message-ID: <20080115054807.GA3694@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <a5eb9c330801141421g13c627e5x77afb357e2a78463@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Umbers, Mon, Jan 14, 2008 23:21:28 +0100:
> The "mount" command tells me everything I have is mounted in binmode.

Now that's unusual, unless you had "Text Mode" selected in the installer

> Are you saying I need to make sure the repository directory is mounted
> in text-mode (for Windows compatibility)? I just reinstalled cygwin,
> selecting text-mode as the default.

No, text-mode is definitely wrong for almost anything. It just
corrupts data. Try activating binary mode.