From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30688 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2014 23:07:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 30676 invoked by uid 89); 3 Dec 2014 23:07:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wg0-f46.google.com Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f46.google.com) (74.125.82.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:07:40 +0000 Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id a1so13086114wgh.33 for ; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:07:37 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.180.108.205 with SMTP id hm13mr17389066wib.5.1417648057664; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:07:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.101.196 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 15:07:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Dave Lindbergh Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:07:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object" To: cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jason Pyeron 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple