# Fixed text wrapping: [MinGW PATCH] Fixed error 'fatal: Not a git repository' on Vista

1 messages from 2007-08-02 to 2007-08-02. Participants: Dmitry Kakurin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9350

## Dmitry Kakurin, 2007-08-02 07:46

Subject: Fixed text wrapping: [MinGW PATCH] Fixed error 'fatal: Not a git repository' on Vista
Message-ID: <1A2D4E815F804E5EABD03C4A5CD455C5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1A2D4E815F804E5EABD03C4A5CD455C5%40ntdev.corp.microsoft.com

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Any git command was immediately failing on Vista under MinGW with
fatal: Not a git repository
Defined __USE_MINGW_ACCESS that changes access( ..., X_OK ) into F_OK

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kakurin <Dmitry.Kakurin@gmail.com>
---
 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8e9a76b..ef40267 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
  NO_SYMLINKS=YesPlease
  NO_SVN_TESTS=YesPlease
  NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=YesPlease
- COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_ETC_PASSWD -DNO_ST_BLOCKS -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" -I compat
+ COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_ETC_PASSWD -DNO_ST_BLOCKS -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -I compat
  COMPAT_OBJS += compat/mingw.o compat/fnmatch.o compat/regex.o
  EXTLIBS += -lws2_32
  X = .exe
-- 
1.5.2.2

```