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Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
- From: Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:55:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
- References: <21394.1261962819@gemini.franz.com> <20091228042329.GC12367@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <10362.1262973686@gemini.franz.com> <4B477CDE.7060000@byu.net>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
>> 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.
Also, given that other versions of SSH work with the 1.7 git, I would
think this is pretty good evidence that it's a bug in cygwin1.dll.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:04:16 -0500
Message-ID: <6ee4c8380912311104i1869d73dk818e041f2d8b29ae@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
From: "Brian L." <brian@blucz.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
...
The problem seems to be rooted in cygwin's openssh package. If I point
GIT_SSH at plink.exe (from the putty distribution) and configure
pageant properly for keyless login then git works fine.
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