Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread David Dyck via Cygwin
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: > I haven't run into a scenario yet where 'readlink' doesn't work. > Here's a unrelated example where symbolic links don't work the same as on unix/linux ( not sure this is a readlink issue ) When I try to write through /proc

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:41:35 PM EST, Brian Inglis wrote: > Sorry, it's been a few years now - there were a few issues testing various > paths > using various directories and links that neither readlink nor > realpath resolved > absolutely and correctly, so I added the cygpath to

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-01-17 11:11, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Brian Inglis! On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem reported

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian Inglis! > On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: >> On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: >>> Ken Brown wrote: Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem reported in early December in which

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-16 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/16/2021 12:22 PM, matthew patton wrote: On Friday, January 15, 2021, 12:48:16 PM EST, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > but it would be appreciated if you would confirm this by testing a snapshot. I have confirmed that running snapshot build Cygwin1.dll from 2021-01-13 handles symlinks in t

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-16 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
On Friday, January 15, 2021, 12:48:16 PM EST, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > but it would be appreciated if you would confirm this by testing a snapshot. I have confirmed that running snapshot build Cygwin1.dll from 2021-01-13 handles symlinks in the PATH as expected. -- Problem reports:

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-15 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/15/2021 12:09 PM, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: I excised the 2 symlink-involved PATH elements and now Git runs great with v3.1.5 of the DLL. I'll try one of the snapshots at some point, You've almost certainly run into the same bug that was fixed in https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newl

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-15 Thread Brian Inglis
On Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:36:28 AM EST, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: On 2021-01-15 10:09, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Do you by any chance have symlinks in your PATH? There was a problem reported in early December in which STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED would

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

2021-01-15 Thread matthew patton via Cygwin
I excised the 2 symlink-involved PATH elements and now Git runs great with v3.1.5 of the DLL. I'll try one of the snapshots at some point, but I am also tempted to change my Bash function 'addPath()' to fully unroll symlinks before adding. https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/master/