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

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 9, 2007, 10:33 UTC
Message-ID: <DFEB6116-ABB4-4D61-92E4-0688604069DE@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <46BAD793.9040906@trolltech.com>

On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin said the following on 09.08.2007 10:50:
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>>> Try running gitme from a terminal.
>> And there I thought that you download GitMe-3.exe, and then double
>> click on it...
>
> Heh, yeah, normally that's indeed what you do. However, in this  
> case I asked him to start it from the terminal to make sure that it  
> wasn't affected by anything suspicious in his system PATH.
>
> Clearly having Cygwin in his path messed things up.

I think checking for a proper setup in the installer would be a good idea, like checking if 'cygpath' runs and if so, die with the request to cleanup the system PATH first.

The problem was not too hard to solve, but the first impression was not optimal.

Where would I have to look to add something like this?

	Steffen