From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Cygwin - unable to create any repository - help!
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801171218470.14959@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <a5eb9c330801171213l2c06c4e4s718324f5b66f0db6@mail.gmail.com>



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