Not sure what to do about giving any more useful information, other than I'm fairly certain its not a git specific problem.
The git status operation does work under 1.7 if i move the repo to my local hard disk. Below are snippets of output that should explain and help re-create the problem. Tim. ---------------on git 1.7----------------- /cygdrive/w>git clone http://git.el-tramo.be/wigit.git wigit Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/w/wigit/.git/ got 4cc01dcdba11f955df04c0afbf2fefc092683fd0 ............. snip git checkout.... ......... got bdb42af6fa96e1a12cea3b71934e30ec05d4bb33 /cygdrive/w>cd wigit/ /cygdrive/w/wigit>git status fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git /cygdrive/w/wigit>ls -l total 7168 0 drwx------ 3 ???????? ???????? 0 Jun 26 02:38 ./ 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 ???????? ???????? 0 Jun 26 02:22 ../ 0 drwx------ 1 ???????? ???????? 0 Jun 26 02:38 .git/ 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 36 Jun 26 02:38 AUTHORS 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 611 Jun 26 02:38 COPYING 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 2398 Jun 26 02:38 README 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 151 Jun 26 02:38 TODO 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 33884 Jun 26 02:38 classTextile.php 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 1072 Jun 26 02:38 config.php.sample 1024 -rw--w--w- 1 ???????? ???????? 9671 Jun 26 02:38 index.php 0 drwx------ 1 ???????? ???????? 0 Jun 26 02:38 themes/ /cygdrive/w/wigit>cd ~/tmp /cygdrive/c/home/tim/tmp>gcc -g -o GetVolInfo GetVolInfo.c -lntdll GetVolInfo.c: In function `main': GetVolInfo.c:105: warning: `cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h:52) /cygdrive/c/home/tim/tmp>./GetVolInfo w: ZwOpenFile(\??\C:\home\tim\tmp\w:) failed, c0000033 /cygdrive/c/home/tim/tmp>./GetVolInfo w:/ Device Type : 6 Characteristics : 10 Object Id : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Extended Info : Not Samba 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Volume Name : <www> Serial Number : 667418949 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : <NTFS> Flags : 2b FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : FALSE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : FALSE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : FALSE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : FALSE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE -------------on git 1.5:------------------- /cygdrive/c/home/tim>cd w:/wigit /cygdrive/w/wigit>git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) /cygdrive/w/wigit>ls -l total 7168 0 drwx------ 3 tim None 0 Jun 26 02:38 ./ 0 drwx------ 1 tim None 0 Jun 26 02:22 ../ 0 drwx------ 1 tim None 0 Jun 26 02:41 .git/ 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 36 Jun 26 02:38 AUTHORS 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 611 Jun 26 02:38 COPYING 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 2398 Jun 26 02:38 README 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 151 Jun 26 02:38 TODO 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 33884 Jun 26 02:38 classTextile.php 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 1072 Jun 26 02:38 config.php.sample 1024 -rw------- 1 tim None 9671 Jun 26 02:38 index.php 0 drwx------ 1 tim None 0 Jun 26 02:38 themes/ /cygdrive/c/home/tim>cd ~/tmp /cygdrive/c/home/tim/tmp>gcc -g -o GetVolInfo1 GetVolInfo.c -lntdll /cygdrive/c/home/tim/tmp>./GetVolInfo1 w:/ Device Type : 6 Characteristics : 10 Object Id : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Extended Info : Not Samba 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Volume Name : <www> Serial Number : 667418949 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : <NTFS> Flags : 2b FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : FALSE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : FALSE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : FALSE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : FALSE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE /cygdrive/c/home/tim/tmp> -- 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
