From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:12:50 GMT Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help! Message-ID: <20080116191250.GC3181@steel.home> In-Reply-To: Paul Umbers, Wed, Jan 16, 2008 19:48:28 +0100: > Latest output, log file attached: > > paulumbers@Devteam29 ~/workspace/git/git-1.5.3 > $ uname -a > somefile > > paulumbers@Devteam29 ~/workspace/git/git-1.5.3 > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ > > paulumbers@Devteam29 ~/workspace/git/git-1.5.3 > $ strace -o log -f -m syscall ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) add somefile > > paulumbers@Devteam29 ~/workspace/git/git-1.5.3 > $ git ls-files -s somefile > 100644 2ed63d326ffdb2fd4b703780f4d61f1893cac63b 0 somefile > > Checking .git/objects/2e ... there is no sha1 file > Hmm... Could you try to create a repo so that the whole path contains no whitespace? Something like "c:/tmp/mydir". Just a suggestion, I am still inspecting your log...