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Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
It is obviously a problem with LF to CRLF conversion of cygwin. It can be
deacted by inserting the line
CYGWIN=binmode
on top of the cygwin.bat file.
The same issue is happening with CVS. Refer also to
http://www.gjt.org/mlist/jcvs/msg01888.html
Kevin Layer wrote:
>
> 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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