Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 23:07 UTC
Message-ID: <46BA4C98.4050005@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7E22DF40-1E28-4B8A-B132-18B05136B5E9@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska wrote:

Let me guess, you have Cygwin on the path along with Msys, and had it that way when you downloaded the package and it tried to build. Hmmm. Maybe Cygwin executables conflict with Msys executables. Nah. Couldn't be. Must be a bug.

Mark

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