Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-08-05 08:01, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/5/2018 5:31 AM, James Darnley wrote: >> You can clone it successfully on Windows if you enable case sensitivity, >> which is probably not recommended but possible with a registry change. > I wouldn't say this is not recommended.  It's documented in the C

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ken Brown! > On 8/5/2018 5:31 AM, James Darnley wrote: >> You can clone it successfully on Windows if you enable case sensitivity, >> which is probably not recommended but possible with a registry change. > I wouldn't say this is not recommended. It's documented in the Cygwin > User'

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/5/2018 5:31 AM, James Darnley wrote: You can clone it successfully on Windows if you enable case sensitivity, which is probably not recommended but possible with a registry change. I wouldn't say this is not recommended. It's documented in the Cygwin User's Guide: https://cygwin.com/cy

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread arnold
James Darnley wrote: > I don't think it is a rename in the history. I think it is because both > regdir/T.sub and regdir/t.sub exist in the dame directory, for example. > You can clone it successfully on Windows if you enable case sensitivity, > which is probably not recommended but possible wit

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-08-05 10:21, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Hi. > > john doe wrote: > >> Linux is case sensitive and Windows is case preserving. >> That is probably the issue here, did the case of the files has been >> changed (rename 100%)? >> >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/repos/git/case-sensit

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread arnold
Hi. john doe wrote: > Linux is case sensitive and Windows is case preserving. > That is probably the issue here, did the case of the files has been > changed (rename 100%)? > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/repos/git/case-sensitivity?view=vsts > > In other words, on "Cygwin" git can not

Re: Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread john doe
On 8/5/2018 9:12 AM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Hi All. Please cc me on responses, as I don't subscribe to the list. I'm using a 64 bit install on Windows 10. I just now did an update and it did not help. The problem is with a particular repo only. (Or at least, I only see it with this particula

Strange git issue with a particular repo

2018-08-05 Thread arnold
Hi All. Please cc me on responses, as I don't subscribe to the list. I'm using a 64 bit install on Windows 10. I just now did an update and it did not help. The problem is with a particular repo only. (Or at least, I only see it with this particular repo.) On Linux, do: git clone git://

Re: Git issue.

2015-12-04 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 12:07:19AM +, Matt Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:30:27PM +, boulderfans wrote: > > > [/cygdrive/d/projects] > > > $ git --git-dir=d:/projects/git-git/.git config alias.foo ls-files > > > error: Unable to open tempfile: > > > /cygdrive/d/projects/d:/

Re: Git issue.

2015-12-03 Thread Matt Smith
ent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 1:42:21 PM Subject: Re: Git issue. On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:30:27PM +, boulderfans wrote: > [/cygdrive/d/projects] > $ git --git-dir=d:/projects/git-git/.git config alias.foo ls-files > error: Unable to open tempfile: > /cygdrive/d/projects

Re: Git issue.

2015-12-03 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:30:27PM +, boulderfans wrote: > [/cygdrive/d/projects] > $ git --git-dir=d:/projects/git-git/.git config alias.foo ls-files > error: Unable to open tempfile: > /cygdrive/d/projects/d:/projects/git-git/.git/config.lock > error: could not lock config file d:/projects/g

Git issue.

2015-11-22 Thread boulderfans
I've run into a problem when using the --git-dir option in git. It appears to have been introduced since git 2.4.x. Here's an example of the problem using a locally built version (2.6.3) of git with some annotated error output: [/cygdrive/d/projects] $ git --version git version 2.6.3-cyg [/cyg