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Git error on Cygwin

From
CSClaudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2007, 17:18 UTC
Message-ID
<46AE1D77.8040609@gmail.com>
Hi all,
   I just installed cygwin on Windows XP and I have the following error when
using git-clone.
(Consider that the same command on the same repository works on Linux).
Regards,
            Claudio
$ git-clone <username>@<host>:/<path>/<project>
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Claudio/<project>/.git/
<username>@<host>'s password:
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 30387 objects.
remote: Deltifying 30387 objects...
remote:  100% (30387/30387) done
Indexing 30387 objects...
remote: Total 30387 (delta 4446), reused 30188 (delta 4351)
  100% (30387/30387) done
Resolving 4446 deltas...
  100% (4446/4446) done
       3 [main] git-read-tree 2160 C:\cygwin\bin\git-read-tree.exe: *** fatal
error - could not load shell32, Win32 error 487
/usr/bin/git-clone: line 404:  2160 Hangup                  git-read-tree -m -u
$v HEAD HEAD
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