Re: problem with insider build for windows and git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 14, 2017, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701131300390.3469@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <1bddbd50-86ea-6c38-6ab8-08336de2ba72@gmail.com>

Hi Michael,

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Michael Gooch wrote:

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> when running commands like pull and clone I get the following message:
> 
> Cygwin WARNING:
>   Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.  This typically occurs if you're using
>   an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows.  Please update to the latest
>   available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/.  If the problem 
> persists,
>   please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> Windows build is version 1607, OS BUILD 15002.1001
> 
> I assume they broke something that cygwin was depending on.

This is not only a known problem, we already have a fix for it, too.

Please note that the recommended way [*1*] to report bugs in Git for Windows would have led you to this ticket:

	https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1029

Please also note that this is only a warning, not an error. Even so, the problem has been reported independently several times...

There have been enough real fixes have been accumulated in Git for Windows' `master` branch, and the next official Git version is far enough in the future [*2*] that it was time for a Git for Windows version, including the fix for the FAST_CWD warning.

Ciao, Johannes

Footnote *1*: https://git-for-windows.github.io/#contribute

Footnote *2*: http://tinyurl.com/gitCal suggests that Git v2.12.0 will be released early February soon after Git Merge (and Git for Windows v2.12.0 will follow soon thereafter), and with no patches applied to the `maint` branch since v2.11.0, I do actually not expect any v2.11.1 to happen before v2.12.0 comes out.