git and openssh issue

[Bill Hoffman]

On 7/22/2010 6:44 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:

> Just to clarify things, are you hosting your first clone under Cygwin
> (from which you make another clone using Cygwin which fails), or are you
> hosting it under a non-Windows system?  It might be good to try this
> under the conditions of Cygwin client<->  Cygwin server, Cygwin client
> <->  non-Windows server, and non-Windows client<->  Cygwin server.
>
We are doing cygwin client to a Linux server that hosts git via ssh.
> Hopefully, we can localize the problem to just the client or server code
> under Cygwin's ssh.  The bisect operation is not a bad idea, but I'm not
> sure what revision of the openssh source was last known to work.  Given
> that this is still not 100% reproducible even for you (if I understand
> you correctly), the bisect tests may not be completely reliable anyway.
>
It is not that unreproducible... It fails maybe 5 out of 6 tries.  If 
you can get it to work 10 out of 10 times then I would say you don't 
have the problem.

According to this thread:
http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Error-when-cloning-gc-ed-repository-td4425832.html
 > I downgraded just the openssh  package in cygwin from 5.5p1-1 to 
5.4p1-1 and the
 > problem went away. This was easier than switching to putty/plink.

It seems that openssh 5.4p1-1 worked.  So, that would be a good place to 
start.

> BTW, are you using text mode mounts under Cygwin for any of these
> repository clones?
>
No, it is all binary mode mounts under Cygwin.
> I'm going to try to make some time this evening to give this a quick test.
>
Sounds good, thanks!



-Bill

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