There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 21.05.2011 11:28, schrieb Don:
> Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I don't even know what a text mount is. (That's a quote from the page).
> But my symptoms seem exactly the same as that.
>
> My experience is:
> * download, standard install.
> * As far as I know there is nothing unusual to my Windows setup.
> * Running 'git status' corrupts the database.
> * Googling for the error message I find other people have encountered
> this before.
> * I find many other bugs within a couple of hours of use.
> Conclude this is an _extremely_ immature product.
>
> I'm amazed anyone disagrees with that.
>
>

By the way: Have you ever tried JGIT? http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/
I don't know how mature it is, but at least it doesn't seem to rely on 
bash scripts and such.

Cheers,
- Daniel