Re: cygwin git diff crash
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- Jeremy Ramer <jdramer@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 15, 2009, 14:42 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
>
>> Ok this is a weird issue and it's probably cygwin's fault, but I
>> haven't found any way to fix it so I' thought I would throw it out
>> here for comment.
>>
>> I am using git 1.6.0.4 on cygwin. I have a repo where if any file has
>> changes and git detects as mode 100644 I get this error:
>> $git diff
>> 3 [main] git 2744 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could
>> not load user32, Win32 error
>>
>> If I change the mode to 100755 git diff will work fine.
>> $chmod a+x test.cpp
>> $git diff
>> diff --git a/test.cpp b/test.cpp
>> old mode 100644
>> new mode 100755
>> index 7c0dfcd..20987a7
>> --- a/test.cpp
>> +++ b/test.cpp
>> @@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ int main()
>>
>> void func()
>> {
>> + int a;^M
>> }
>>
>> void func2()
>> {
>> + int b;^M
>> }
>>
>> Anybody have a clue as to why this might occur? I have seen this in
>> many of the repo's I use, but it is not repeatable. I tried making a
>> test repo but could not reproduce.
>
> Wow, that _is_ weird. Does your test suite pass?
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>Forgive my ignorance, but I am not sure how to run the test suite. I did a quick google search but didn't find anything. I am using cygwin's packaged version of git and am not building it from source, so maybe the suite is not available. If I get a chance I will try building from source.
Jeremy