Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help!

From: Paul Umbers <paul.umbers@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2008, 18:57 UTC
Message-ID: <a5eb9c330801161057q61a04d66u2059e08db1bdd3ee@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080116183840.GB3181@steel.home>

Done. The cygwin install is the standard, all-defaults install (and I've done it 5 times now). I've attached a tar.gz with the test results run under sh and bash. Hope that helps.

On Jan 16, 2008 11:38 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Paul Umbers, Wed, Jan 16, 2008 19:10:43 +0100:
> > > After seeing the above error, running the test with -i (stop
> > > immediately on failure):
> > >
> > >         $ cd t
> > >         $ sh -x ./t0000-basic.sh -i -v
> > >
> > Tried Junio's latest suggestion. The resulting output and contents of
> > the trash are attached as a tar.gz. Thanks for all your help guys, I'm
>
> Well, either it didn't work or you omited something critical (like
> stderr):
>
>     * expecting success: tree=$(git write-tree)
>     * FAIL 5: writing tree out with git write-tree
>             tree=$(git write-tree)
>
> that is too short. All the traces missing. Could you please retry
> with
>
>     sh -x ./t0000-basic.sh -d -v -i &> test_results.txt
>
> ? If that is what you actually did, I suspect you have a very broken
> shell installed. Could you check if you have bash (bash --version)
> and try it instead of "sh"?
>
>

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Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP
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