Re: BUG I can't start git on Windows 7
For others who are lazy to open the link, solution is executing this as administrator from your bin folder from where git is installed:
rebase.exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1.0.dll
or reboot, but some people don't reboot their PC's ever, so you might prefer this.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes that fixed it, thanks :)
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov
> <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:44 +0200
>> Petr Bena <benapetr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I installed git on my system using official package from git-scm.com
>>> but I can't launch it, I am always getting this error:
>>>
>>> C:\Users\petr.bena>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i
>>> 0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32
>>> error 487 AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68570000, RegionSize
>>> 0x40000, State 0x10000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe: ***
>>> Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0
>>>
>>>
>>> At some point this could be an issue with cygwin, but I am not sure.
>>> Did anyone had similar issue?
>>
>> Does [1] help?
>>
>> I wonder, why the error message mentions Cygwin though.
>> One reason might be is that MinGW is originally a fork of some very
>> early Cygwin release so may be some error message is lingering there,
>> unmodified.
>>
>> 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/24406417/720999
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