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Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1


Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:

>> According to Kevin Layer on 1/8/2010 11:01 AM:
>> > Has anyone in the cygwin group reproduced this?
>> 
>> Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic
>> failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around
>> by switching over to an http protocol.  I'm assuming that it might either
>> be BLODA or an actual bug in cygwin1.dll regarding handling of socket fds
>> across forks, but haven't ever been bothered by it enough to try and debug
>> it, because the workaround of http always works.

Some of us can't use git w/HTTP, so I hope this gets fixed sooner
rather than later.

Kevin

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