Re: FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Dec 4, 2014, 00:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20141204005443.GB200195@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <64C98FC352BD45EC9632202946A081E1@black>

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:31:18PM -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:

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> I remember hitting this a while ago, but just gave up.
> 
> It seems to be a problem for others too.
> 
> Any ideas on how to debug this so it can be patched?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lindbergh
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 18:07
> To: cygwin
> 
> Aha - you're right.
> 
> It works fine on a local NTFS volume.
> 
> I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a network drive
> (on another Windows box).
> 
> Is there a workaround? Why does this happen?

I don't think anyone is sure. My wild guess is that there's something about the way that Cygwin wraps Windows calls that makes it fail in this case. It might be interesting to run the Windows and Cygwin versions under an strace equivalent and see where things differ.

It's an interesting problem, but I don't have any Windows systems, so I can't look into it.

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