Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2007, 13:18 UTC
Message-ID: <f99rei$ou$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <f99nm6$9vi$1@sea.gmane.org>

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>>>  100% (2295/2295) done
>>> Resolving 1793 deltas...
>>>  100% (1793/1793) done
>>> : not a valid SHA1b870df7cde1e05ee76d1d15ea428f
>>> fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

As Mark Levedahl assumed by e-mail, the problem is with Cygwin's binary vs. text mount mode feature. Thanks Mark.

I'm running on NTFS and I did try the "binary mount" stuff before "git clone" by issuing

mount -bc /cygdrive

but I overlooked that this command only affects /cygdrive paths, and I did clone into a non /cygdrive path. So cloning to a /cygdrive mounted path works now.

I wonder if this happens because git never passes "b" to any fopen() calls (as there is no such thing like opening a file in binary mode under Linux, because files are always opened "binary"). If fopen() safely ignores the "b" option under Linux, I think it should always be specified so Cygwin's git will work with text mode mounts when compiled from the original git sources.

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Sebastian Schuberth