RE: FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: brian m. carlson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 19:55
>
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:31:18PM -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > I remember hitting this a while ago, but just gave up.
> >
> > It seems to be a problem for others too.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to debug this so it can be patched?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Lindbergh
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 18:07
> > To: cygwin
> >
> > Aha - you're right.
> >
> > It works fine on a local NTFS volume.
> >
> > I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a
> network drive
> > (on another Windows box).
> >
> > Is there a workaround? Why does this happen?
>
> I don't think anyone is sure. My wild guess is that there's something
> about the way that Cygwin wraps Windows calls that makes it
> fail in this
> case. It might be interesting to run the Windows and Cygwin versions
> under an strace equivalent and see where things differ.
[this was posted to the cygwin list]
http://nerdfever.com/files/strace.txt
>
> It's an interesting problem, but I don't have any Windows
> systems, so I
> can't look into it.
If it becomes a little less magic, I will chomp on the problem, but I cannot make a predictable test case.
-Jason
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