Maybe I missed this but why are people using the native Windows ActiveState Perl with GIT+Cygwin when Cygwin has a Cygwin-ized Perl installation available? I've been using the Cygwin Perl with GIT without any problems whatsoever. Including the open(I, "-|")... exec(@argv) code that doesn't work correctly in ActiveState and started this whole thread. -- Shawn. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html