Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

["Mark Levedahl" <mlevedahl@gmail.com>]

On 8/7/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
>
> I read your message and I just checked the most recent installer
> of cygwin (screenshot attached).
>
> I see three choices I'm offered:
> 1) the path to install;
> 2) install for all or just me;
> 3) choose the default text file type.
>
> I wouldn't call that deprecated, not even obsolenscent.

Call it passively deprecated. there has been a lot of discussion about
removing it, or at least hiding it behind the mount command and not
offering it at all during installation. The objective of text mounts
was noble, but it really is hard to automatically convert any
occurrence of crlf->lf and lf->crlf everywhere it should be done but
not where it should not be done. However, a lot of people use text
mounts without trouble (or at least without complaining to the lists),
so removing the option outright was thought too likely to cause an
uproar. So, consider that Cygwin is taking the "let it rot, remove it
later" approach. Anyone who has troubles is generally and not so
gently encouraged to just use binary mounts. There are some known crlf
problems, largely with bash/sh, pipes, forks, and redirection (of
which git is a heavy user so git is a prime candidate to get into
trouble) that are not being worked.

For instance, when working on git-bundle.sh, I got bit by crlf
conversions corrupting packfiles sent through a pipe on a system with
pure binary mounts and CYGWIN=binmode. The cure to that bug is
*removing* auto-crlf conversion from Cygwin.

Mark