On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: >On 9/27/2010 12:38 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: >> Eric Blake<ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >>>> On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>>>> If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious >>>>>> impediment to using Cygwin 1.7. I would think it would be of top >>>>>> priority. >>>>> >>>>> Only people who experience the problem can diagnose, debug, and fix it. >>>>> git works fine for me under cygwin-1.7.1 (Vista, NTFS), so... >>>>> >>>>> Has the cygwin git maintainer been able to verify/reproduce the error? >>>>> If not, then there's no way he can help you. >>>> >>>> I have sometimes seen the problem, but it has never been a show-stopper >>>> for me (I fall back to http cloning), and, so far, it has not percolated >>>> high enough to the top of my TODO list to be worth the investment of my >>>> time on it. >> >> I notice it is still broken (as of last week when I updated to the >> latest versions of everything and tested it). >> >> Any further news on when will be fixed? >> >> As for it not being a show-stopper for you, I just want to point out >> that there are many of us out here that do not have the luxury of >> switching to HTTP cloning when this fails. So, for us, it's a >> show-stopper that requires us to use putty to use git at all. >> >I came up with a way to reproduce this if a developer wanted to try and >fix it. > >That post can be seen here: >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00506.html > >git/ssh on cygwin are pretty much broken at this point...
And, when I tried this, it pointed to an actual problem in git rather than a problem in Cygwin so that limits what is meant by "developer". Isn't git normally used for source control management by programmers? If this is such a bad problem why isn't one of those programmers looking into it and proposing a fix? That's one of the reasons for free software - you can fix the problems yourself. And, before someone inevitably opines that I'm just being mean, I have to point out that this really is how many open source projects work. People who are not maintainers actually do propose fixes. cgf -- 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