From: Paul Umbers Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:32:53 GMT Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help! Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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 wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Paul Umbers wrote: > > > > Quite possibly. We have Embassy Trust Suite and Symantec Endpoint > > Security installed > > That's it. > > Do a google for > > Embassy Trust Suite cygwin > > and revel in all the reports of problems with cygwin with that thing > installed. > > See for example Dave Korn at: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00132.html > > or this on: > > 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 > > -- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --- Edsger W. Dijkstra Paul Umbers MSc MBCS MIAP paul.umbers@gmail.com