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Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
- From: Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:27:30 -0800
- Subject: Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
- References: <21394.1261962819@gemini.franz.com> <20091228042329.GC12367@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <10362.1262973686@gemini.franz.com> <4B477CDE.7060000@byu.net>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
>> According to Kevin Layer on 1/8/2010 11:01 AM:
>> > Has anyone in the cygwin group reproduced this?
>>
>> 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.
Some of us can't use git w/HTTP, so I hope this gets fixed sooner
rather than later.
Kevin
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