Hi! When I use "git clone foo bar" on a Linux host, it works as expected.
git clone foo bar Cloning into 'bar'... done. When I use the same command on my Cygwin 64 installation, this used to work, but does not work any more. I can fetch and otherwise use Git in existing repos all right (have not noticed anything else amiss), but the clone command fails like this: ---- cd /cygdrive/c/base git clone foo bar Cloning into 'bar'... error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. ---- Directory `bar` exists neither before nor after the attempted cloning. In the parent directory, manually creating a subdirectory works as expected: /cygdrive/c/base> mkdir bar; ls -ld bar; rmdir bar drwx------+ 1 username 123 0 Jan 27 13:13 bar The issue is not restricted to local cloning, the same messages are printed when I attempt to clone from a remote host (from which I can clone just fine from a Linux client). Searching the internet for "cygwin git error chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument" gave not useful results. I first noticed the issue after having upgraded to Cygwin 2.4.0-1. Juding from the directory creation times in `base`, it looks like the last successful clone happened on 2015-07-28. I do not know which version of Cygwin I used at that time, I update roughly once a month. Today, I upgraded to 2.4.1-1, the issue persists. I tried downgrading git from 2.7 to 2.6 via the installer. The issue persisted, so I rolled forward again, the issue persisted. How can I troubleshoot this further? Rainer -- 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
