new git update fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-05-26 16:44, David Dyck via Cygwin wrote:
> After updating I still get the same error.
> 
> $ git clone -v https://github.com/lxml/lxml.git
> Cloning into 'lxml'...
> POST git-upload-pack (175 bytes)
> POST git-upload-pack (gzip 8652 to 4282 bytes)
> remote: Enumerating objects: 33941, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (3786/3786), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1328/1328), done.
> remote: Total 33941 (delta 2360), reused 3474 (delta 2243), pack-reused
> 30155
> Receiving objects: 100% (33941/33941), 20.20 MiB | 17.42 MiB/s, done.
> fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
> 
> 
> $ cygcheck -srv >cygcheck.out
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive S: failed: 53
> 
> $ git --version
> git version 2.45.1
> 
> $ cygcheck -c git
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version    Status
> git                  2.45.1-1       OK
> 
> $  type git
> git is hashed (/usr/bin/git)
> 
> attached cygcheck.out

Retry running git prefixed with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin/:/usr/sbin:/sbin
ISTR in the past having to lose MS dirs from my Cygwin PATH.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry