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Git on MSys broken

Subject: Git on MSys broken

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Nico -telmich- Schottelius· Feb 26, 2009, 19:56 UTC · lore

Hello!

I just wanted to show my father how well git works, but the experience is rather bad:

All files have a "beta" label, which makes not a really stable impression. And indeed, when trying to start git bash, we get this error:

c:\Programme\Git\bin>bash 0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487 AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x71540000, RegionSize 0x1C0000, State 0x10000 c:\Programme\Git\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win 32 error 6

Well, it's already known, but the the hint from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=133 (found only from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=176)

to install a differnt dll can just be considered a dirty hack.

Sorry msys-guys, the only thing left now is a bad impression.

Nico

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Tim Visher· Feb 26, 2009, 20:20 UTC · re: Nico -telmich- Schottelius · lore

Re: Git on MSys broken

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> wrote:

> Sorry msys-guys, the only thing left now is a bad impression.

That's strange. I installed Git through MSysGit on a server here at work and it works great.

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Marius Storm-Olsen· Feb 26, 2009, 20:52 UTC · re: Nico -telmich- Schottelius · lore

Re: Git on MSys broken

Nico -telmich- Schottelius said the following on 26.02.2009 20:56:

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> Well, it's already known, but the the hint from 
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=133 (found only
> from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=176)
> 
> to install a differnt dll can just be considered a dirty hack.
> 
> Sorry msys-guys, the only thing left now is a bad impression.

Well, to our defence, it's not our bug but an MSys issue. The r00t of the problem is the base address of the msys dll, and that relocating it for some reason breaks. So, in the end it depends on you system, and which DLLs msys will pull in there, and what those DLLs base address is. If they collide, and the msys dll need to relocate on your machine, this bug may manifest itself.

AFAIK someone on the team is looking into it, but the team is rather small and have limited resources. Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially from people that can reproduce the error, which I can't :-(

-- .marius