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Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

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To: Brian Downing <bdowning@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@...>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...>, Git Mailing List <git@...>, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@...>, Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@...>
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 - 1:46 am

On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Brian Downing wrote:


I agree. This is my understanding as well.


Did you find a way, maybe not as decent as you wished?



Yeah, it looks quite crazy. I started to search for an
option that would force the shell to provide redirection
in binary mode, overriding the standard rules. I found
the igncr option [1], which is not what I need. But
apparently there have been some efforts to deal with
line endings in bash beyond the cygwin standard rules.
Maybe there's a useful option that I haven't found yet.

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-01/msg00015.html



Well, our software already builds and I was not even aware
that there is a problem with git on cygwin until I asked
more people to test it. I naively chose the default option
because I didn't have a reason to do otherwise. But
apparently there is an option, and people use this option.

My fear is that the first impression of git is too bad on
Windows if it can't handle textmode. I can't recommend it.
People will make me responsible for recommending them a
tool that only cause troubles or forces them to reconfigure
their cygwin, which worked for them for years. I even
remember that we had a policy to explicitly set cygwin
to textmode to avoid problems with cvs commits in combination
with Visual Studio 6.

	Steffen
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git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 5:02 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 7, 7:58 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 8:13 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 9:18 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Tue Aug 7, 11:29 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Shawn O. Pearce, (Tue Aug 7, 10:36 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Brian Downing, (Tue Aug 7, 10:58 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 1:11 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Tue Aug 7, 1:42 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 3:41 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 9:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 11:51 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 12:41 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Aug 8, 1:20 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 3:37 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Aug 8, 5:30 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 2:20 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Fri Aug 10, 2:07 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 3:19 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Fri Aug 10, 6:31 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 8:43 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Tue Aug 14, 8:04 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 15, 1:22 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, David Kastrup, (Wed Aug 15, 1:30 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 15, 1:43 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, David Kastrup, (Wed Aug 15, 2:59 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Aug 13, 6:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Aug 10, 6:30 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 7:14 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 4:13 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 4:36 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 2:01 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 9, 4:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 5:00 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 6:33 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 2:38 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 2:47 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 7:07 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 12:59 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Aug 7, 6:26 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Wed Aug 8, 3:55 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 5:44 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 6:46 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Brian Downing, (Wed Aug 8, 12:25 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 1:46 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 7:20 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Aug 7, 6:28 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 11:47 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 11:27 am)
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