From: Kelly F. Hickel <kfh@mqsoftware.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:46:10 GMT
Subject: RE: Strange, can't push
Message-ID: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F7943031172A7@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70ACE0806@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of John Dlugosz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: Jeff King
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: Strange, can't push
> 
> > From: Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:07 PM
> > To: John Dlugosz
> > Subject: Re: Strange, can't push
> >
> > If that is the case, it is a serious problem that we are failing to
> > record a ref update but not reporting the error. Can you reproduce
> it?
> > If so, would you mind instrumenting your build with a few stopping
> > points to see where it might be going wrong (I would ask you to
> strace,
> > but I somehow doubt that is an option on Windows)?
> >
> > -Peff
> 
> No, but after two funny things, I've decided that the first thing to do
> is back up the directory, so I can study it later.  So next time
> something funny happens, I'll be better able to reproduce it after
> putting effort into making it go away.
> 
> I have yet to rebuild msysgit myself.  Even so, it's not my normal
> working environment and I have no idea how to fire up a debugger with
> it.
> 
> --John

FYI, I've had fairly good luck using strace with cygwin executables on windows.  
No idea if it works with msysgit though....

-Kellyl