From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.0.50-1.6bec21243d20 (TEST)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 12:20:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4d8a5f2-5da5-6d67-ef55-04924bc6e1cd@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a1b4a28-fe09-0eea-0867-70d4625e8052@cornell.edu>
On 2021-10-01 11:38, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 10/1/2021 1:27 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>>> Installing "git" from the Cygwin repository seems to fix this problem.
>>>> So I suggest uninstalling "git" and see if you can figure out where
>>>> the message is actually coming from. It doesn't appear to be coming
>>>> from anything in my environment. I must have "git" installed at home,
>>>> which is why I don't see the message there.
>>>
>>> I already tried moving my git executable out of the way, and I couldn't
>>> reproduce the problem. Do you see the message at home if you do the
>>> same?
>>
>> I don't see the problem at home. I do not have git installed there.
>>
>> I noticed that at work, I had a ~/.git directory. I renamed that and
>> the problem went away.
>
> Great, I'm glad you figured it out. This might still be an emacs bug.
> I'll see about getting it fixed.
>
> Thanks for the report.
Sounds like a Version Control mode (M-X vc?) supporting git is
installed, emacs is trying to enter some kind of git mode when a .git
subdirectory is present, and is not finding either an emacs git.el or
the git command in the PATH?
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 16:20 Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
2021-10-01 13:43 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-01 14:21 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2021-10-01 16:42 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2021-10-01 16:51 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2021-10-01 17:04 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-01 17:27 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2021-10-01 17:38 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-01 18:20 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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