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

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 9, 2007, 06:38 UTC
Message-ID: <872D90BF-CB37-496B-9E7D-3C9A19125EBA@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <46BAADC8.9020003@trolltech.com>

On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

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>>> I have two 'crashes' during installation. I attached snapshots of
>>> the requesters. I don't know how to copy text from the installer.
>>> Therefore I attached snapshots.
>> Hmm... how do I get started? I naively chose cygwin as my shell. I
>> set
>> export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/msysgit/bin
>> then I tried
>> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git c:/msysgit/ 
>> bin/git-clone: line 214: git-init: command not found
>> Maybe it's related to the errors during installation?
>> How can I build and install git manually, based on the result of
>> GitMe-3's basic setup?
>
> Ok, first, which system is this? Windows 2000/XP/Vista?
> (The Gitme installer doesn't work on old ones for now)

XP 32bit.

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> Try running gitme from a terminal. Download gitme-3.exe into C: 
> \temp, open a native terminal (Start - Run - Type "cmd" <enter>);  
> then in the terminal, type:
>     C:\temp> set PATH=%WINDIR%\system32;%WINDIR%
>     C:\temp> gitme-3

> Does it work then? If so, the problem is likely to be that you have  
> Cygwin in the system path, which is not advisable/compatible with  
> MSys.

I had cygwin at the tail of my PATH. After removing it the installation went through flawlessly.

A check in the installer would be a good idea.

Would you recommend running git only from the mingw shell prompt, or can I start it also from a Cygwin shell prompt?

Thanks a lot,

	Steffen