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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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Subject: Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:29:58 -0700
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On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
>> Ken Brown wrote:
>>> Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem
>>> reported in early December in which STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED
>>> would sometimes occur when there was a symlink in PATH:

>> Yes, the first and 3rd entries are symlinks. I've had these symlinks in my 
>> PATH for years.
>> /home/MP1116/.aws/YYY/bin:/home/MP1116/bin -> .WPHOME/bin/
>> .aws -> .WPHOME/.aws/.WPHOME -> Dropbox/Work_Projects/XXX
>> # /etc/fstab
 >> C:/Users /home none binary,user 0 0

> I excised the 2 symlink-involved PATH elements and now Git runs great with 
> v3.1.5 of the DLL. I'll try one of the snapshots at some point, but I am also
> tempted to change my Bash function 'addPath()' to fully unroll symlinks
> before adding.
> https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/master/.functions#L144
Resolving Cygwin paths is best done using readlink or realpath followed by 
cygpath -alm then cygpath -auU to get canonical paths, as neither realpath nor 
cygpath do the complete job under Cygwin.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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