I'm seeing very similar bad behavior from cygwin+git on win7 x64 as well as winxp x86. This bug is not confined to 64 bit platforms. This bug is new in 1.7.x--I have cygwin 1.5 installs on both of these machines that do not exhibit this failure.
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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple