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From: Dave Lindbergh <lindbergh@92f1.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOOocNmPvq+gZjkCvDtONwZeWZrD7HcA3m10N8ryxiuzca_wtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BCA71D26F26F4EC487E0D811F70EC4F5@black>

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us> wrote:
> [copy off list, because the sourceware system admins throws temper tantrums]
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave L
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 15:30
>>
>> ...but the git from github.com works fine.
>>
>> I installed Cygwin's version of git, and get this:
>>
>>     $ git clone https://github.com/nerdfever/pic32mx-bmf
>>     Cloning into 'pic32mx-bmf'...
>>     remote: Counting objects: 12, done.
>>     remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>>     error: failed to read delta-pack base object
>>     300bdeb2fd209d24afb865584da10b78aa8fefc4
>>     fatal: unpack-objects failed
>
> What file system are you on? Local NTFS or remote?

Aha - you're right.

It works fine on a local NTFS volume.

I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a network drive
(on another Windows box).

Is there a workaround? Why does this happen?

--Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-03 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-03 20:30 Dave L
2014-12-03 20:40 ` Marco Atzeri
     [not found] ` <BCA71D26F26F4EC487E0D811F70EC4F5@black>
2014-12-03 23:07   ` Dave Lindbergh [this message]
2014-12-04  9:53     ` [cygwin] " Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05  5:05     ` Andrey Repin
2014-12-04 21:28 Dave Lindbergh
2014-12-04 22:43 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2014-12-05 11:35   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05 17:39     ` Dave L
2014-12-07 10:11       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-05  8:46 ` Csaba Raduly

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