On 2/28/2011 11:06 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:09:44PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 2/25/2011 3:24 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> I realize this report won't be terribly useful, but I did encounter
>>> a problem with the latest snapshot. I have a local git
>>> repository. With the snapshot, "git log" produces:
>>>
>>> 0 [main] git 4944 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not
>>> load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
>>>
>>> This works fine up through the 20100924 snapshot and starts to fail
>>> on the 20100926 snapshot.
>>>
>>> This only occurs on some of my git repositories. I was not able to
>>> reproduce it using the latest snapshot by just making a simple
>>> repository, adding a file, then running "git log".
>>>
>>> This is on Windows XP Pro in case it matters (32-bit, all patches
>>> installed).
>>>
>>> I wish I could be more helpful and provide a test case to reproduce
>>> it.
>>
>> I was able to reproduce this using a clone of the git repository itself:
>>
>> % uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 tela 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110221 20:36:00 i686 Cygwin
>> % git clone git://github.com/git/git.git
>> Cloning into git...
>> remote: Counting objects: 134689, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39672/39672), done.
>> remote: Total 134689 (delta 100250), reused 126970 (delta 93150)
>> Receiving objects: 100% (134689/134689), 28.44 MiB | 621 KiB/s, done.
>> Resolving deltas: 100% (100250/100250), done.
>> % cd git/
>> % git log
>> 0 [main] git 3088 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not
>> load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
>
> Just to dot the i's here, could you try the latest snapshot?
>
> Corinna and I went back and forth a little on the best way to fix this.
> The current snapshot has more stringent checking but should still work
> fine.
Yep, still works fine here.
> (Although the fix is still hacky)
Thanks for the fixy hack. :)
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