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Subject: Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
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It is obviously a problem with LF to CRLF conversion of cygwin. It can be
deacted by inserting the line

CYGWIN=binmode

on top of the cygwin.bat file.

The same issue is happening with CVS. Refer also to

http://www.gjt.org/mlist/jcvs/msg01888.html


Kevin Layer wrote:
> 
> Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:
> 
>>> Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic
>>> failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working
>>> around
>>> by switching over to an http protocol.  I'm assuming that it might
>>> either
>>> be BLODA or an actual bug in cygwin1.dll regarding handling of socket
>>> fds
>>> across forks, but haven't ever been bothered by it enough to try and
>>> debug
>>> it, because the workaround of http always works.
> 
> Also, given that other versions of SSH work with the 1.7 git, I would
> think this is pretty good evidence that it's a bug in cygwin1.dll.
> 
>   Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:04:16 -0500
>   Message-ID:
> <6ee4c8380912311104i1869d73dk818e041f2d8b29ae AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
>   Subject: Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
>   From: "Brian L." <brian AT blucz DOT com>
>   To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> 
>   ...
> 
>   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.
> 
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