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Cygwin git dies silently

Subject: Cygwin git dies silently

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3 messages between Sep 18, 2009 and Sep 22, 2009.

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John Ousterhout· Sep 18, 2009, 23:48 UTC · lore

I am trying to use the standard version of git that comes with Cygwin (Cygwin says it's version 1.6.1.2-1), but when I invoke git from Cygwin bash nothing happens: the shell prompt appears again with no other output. I tried several different sets of git arguments, but they all behave the same way. "echo $?" says that git is exiting with status 53. Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

-John-

Clemens Buchacher· Sep 19, 2009, 08:19 UTC · re: John Ousterhout · lore

Re: Cygwin git dies silently

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:48:42PM -0700, John Ousterhout wrote:

> "echo $?" says that git is exiting with status 53.

Git never returns 53. Googling for exit status 53 turns up some hits [1].

Clemens

[1] http://www.google.com/search?&q=exit+code+53

Clemens Buchacher· Sep 22, 2009, 07:08 UTC · lore

Re: Cygwin git dies silently

[re-adding the list to Cc for future reference]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:37:43PM -0700, John Ousterhout wrote:

> your message eventually led me to the problem, which
> is that somehow I didn't have libz installed.  Once I installed libz
> git is now working.

I'm surprised that cygwin did not take care of installing the dependencies for you. After all, you were installing the version "that came with cygwin"? If that is the case, please file a bug report with cygwin, because it's clearly a problem with their packaging.

Thanks, Clemens