From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:51:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Git error on Cygwin
Message-ID: <81b0412b0707310051n4e62257bt279f65d159757876@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46AE1D77.8040609@gmail.com>

On 7/30/07, Claudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Definitely.

> $ 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

Report this to cygwin team. Try rerunning the command, usually
it helps (typical workaround for cygwin).