There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sat, 21 May 2011 00:47:46 +0300, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I would have thought so. I wouldn't expect to find the root cause  
> first described as bug #21, yes TWENTY ONE in the msysgit database.

Sorry, but did you read the bug report and the whole comment you linked  
to? It's completely unrelated, core.auto-crlf is related to the conversion  
of files in the working directory - this setting will not affect the way  
the index is accessed. You're not making much of sense, and I'm the  
"fanboy" here...

> I don't know exactly what causes it. It may have something to do with  
> the fact that I have a symlink in my path. Here's the result of a quick  
> google:
> ----
> http://www.nishioka.com/blog/2008/01/source-control-with-git-and-cygwin.html
>
> "If you use git on cygwin, you must be sure your disks are mounted  
> binmode or your database will get corrupted!
>
> I had all my disks but one mounted binmode, but I also had a symbolic  
> link that ended up using that one textmode mount. This corrupted the  
> index and I got:
>
> error: bad index file sha1 signature
> fatal: index file corrupt"
>
> Still not fixed in cygwin in 2011.

How did you end up with a text mount? Did you create it yourself?

Will you agree, at least, that cygwin + text-mode mount (I had never even  
heard of this before you brought it up) is not a typical set up?

(I imagine this might be an easy fix... fopen(index, "w") -> fopen(index,  
"wb") oslt)

> No, fanboyism is evidenced in dismissing a list of bugs. I think that  
> was a darn good list.

That depends on what do you mean by "dismiss". Am I arguing that these are  
not bugs? No. Am I arguing that these are not bugs in Git for Windows that  
the majority of users will encounter? Maybe.

I had actually typed a reply where I replied to each item in your list  
(with my own observations and suggestions), but that would have definitely  
landed me a "fanboy" label...

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Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net