> From: Cygwin <cygwin-boun...@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Adam > Dinwoodie > Sent: 10 November 2020 13:57 > Subject: Re: Git shows nothing in cmd.exe > > Thoughts below partly for my own reference, and partly in case anyone else > – including but not limited to Panos! – manages to take things further before > I do. > > I can't see anything obviously wrong here. There's two key oddities that > might be causing problems, though: > > - Cygwin is installed in `C:\Program Files\Cygwin`; that _should_ work, but > it's > atypical, and spaces in filenames are a common source of problems. > > - This is a relatively old installation; I've not checked anything else, but > Cygwin > Git v2.21.0-1 was released in May 2019 and there have been a bunch of > updates since then. I can't remember anything with these symptoms from > that time, however. > > I'm also curious about the Git configuration here, as I can see a bunch of > ways > that could cause problems. I don't have the Cygwin bin directory in my path > to test this immediately, but for example `git branch -a` will try to call a > pager > – `less` by default` – so I could imagine there being a PATH problem or > similar > that's resulting in a duff pager call that's eating the output.
Adam, thank you very much! You found our issue. It is the "less" command from GnuWin32 that caused the problem: C:\>where less C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\less.exe C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\less.exe C:\>rename "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\less.exe" less-OLD.exe C:\>cd dev\Projects\TSSO_WKS\tsso-workstation-configuration C:\DEV\Projects\TSSO_WKS\tsso-workstation-configuration>git branch -a * master remotes/origin/master It now displays correctly the branches. Panos -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
