On Saturday, December 1, 2012 11:49:40 PM UTC+1, munene kiruja wrote: > Git already came in with the cygwin install. So I thought I could just > start using it. After 2 days of reading and searching, not even one step > ahead. Anyone help. What am I doing wrong? > > You're not doing anything wrong here. The first `git log` error message is normal, as there are no commits yet, there is nothing to log (bad error message, I know).
The exclude stuff and the corrupt index file definitely should not happen. So I reckon your Git environment is faulty. I don't know much about the CygWin Git, but the popular opinion is that msysgit is the way to go on Windows<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783906/git-under-windows-msys-or-cygwin> . --
