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

From: Paul Umbers <paul.umbers@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 22:32 UTC
Message-ID: <a5eb9c330801171432p4e3600a1x91f088bcafdb876d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801171218470.14959@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Yup. That looks like it - dontcha just gotta love the way some vendors abuse the Windows OS.

I think I'll give msysgit a try, failing that I can always disable the Embassy Suite (since it seems it's only needed for the fingerprint reader which I don't use anyways).

Guys, thanks for all your help - you've been terrific.

Paul

On Jan 17, 2008 1:24 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Paul Umbers wrote:
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> > Quite possibly. We have Embassy Trust Suite and Symantec Endpoint
> > Security installed
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> That's it.
>
> Do a google for
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>         Embassy Trust Suite cygwin
>
> and revel in all the reports of problems with cygwin with that thing
> installed.
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> See for example Dave Korn at:
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>         http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00132.html
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> or this on:
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>         http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2007-q1/msg00270.html
>         http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00856.html
>
> so I'm pretty sure that's it.
>
> Ahh, the joys of Windows.
>
> Btw, did you ever test the msys version of git
>
>         http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
>
> since I suspect that it's likely to not just be faster, but also more
> robust, since there is a much thinner layer between git and windows (and
> thus hopefully many fewer complex dependencies that can go wrong).
>
>                         Linus
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>

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Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP
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