From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:58:22 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510051556320.14244@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051005131631.GA9442@diku.dk>

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Jonas Fonseca wrote:

>   user@machine /usr/local/dev/git/git
>   $ git-log
>   fatal: Not a git repository
> 
>   user@machine /usr/local/dev/git/git
>   $ GIT_DIR=.git git-log | wc -l
>   26094

That could have its cause in your .git/HEAD being no symlink. That happens 
when rsync´ing the .git directory.

The other errors could also stem from the fact that quite a few places 
expect HEAD to be a symlink.

Ciao,
Dscho