Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

[Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>]

Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:

>> Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic
>> failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around
>> by switching over to an http protocol.  I'm assuming that it might either
>> be BLODA or an actual bug in cygwin1.dll regarding handling of socket fds
>> across forks, but haven't ever been bothered by it enough to try and debug
>> it, because the workaround of http always works.

Also, given that other versions of SSH work with the 1.7 git, I would
think this is pretty good evidence that it's a bug in cygwin1.dll.

  Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:04:16 -0500
  Message-ID: <6ee4c8380912311104i1869d73dk818e041f2d8b29ae@mail.gmail.com>
  Subject: Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1
  From: "Brian L." <brian@blucz.com>
  To: cygwin@cygwin.com

  ...

  The problem seems to be rooted in cygwin's openssh package. If I point
  GIT_SSH at plink.exe (from the putty distribution) and configure
  pageant properly for keyless login then git works fine.

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