Re: TortoiseGit + Cygwin git: unified diff fails (cygheap read copy failed)

[Gene Pavlovsky <gene dot pavlovsky at gmail dot com>]

On 17 November 2016 at 02:42, Gene Pavlovsky <gene.pavlovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody!
>
> I'm using TortoiseGit with Cygwin git (Cygwin workarounds enabled in
> advanced TortoiseGit settings). For the most part, everything works
> correctly.
> The only problem: in TortoiseGit log for any repository, right-click
> any commit, pick "show changes as unified diff", there's an error
> dialog:
>
> ```
> Could not get unified diff.
>    1 [main] git 2292 child_copy: cygheap read copy failed,
> 0x180302408..0x18030F230, done 0, windows pid 2292, Win32 error 6
> 411 [main] git 2292 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - ccalloc
> would have returned NULL
> ```
>
> Actually I've had this several months ago, just never got around to
> posting this to the list.

I've submitted an issue to the TortoiseGit issue tracker, the fix was
committed and it works now on my system.
https://gitlab.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/issues/2868
--Gene

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