Looks like it works. >From the windows machine: U:\foo>git cat-file -p 0b89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 100644 blob b02e7c87fe376a353ea4f014bdb3f5200a946b37 foo1 100644 blob 2cbf64f759a62392ad9dfe1fb9c2cdb175876014 foo2 U:\foo> Double-checking that nothing was fixed or changed when I earlier committed the file from Linux, here's a second test: U:\foo>git cat-file -p 0b89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 100644 blob b02e7c87fe376a353ea4f014bdb3f5200a946b37 foo1 100644 blob 2cbf64f759a62392ad9dfe1fb9c2cdb175876014 foo2 U:\foo>git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # trace1 # trace2 nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) U:\foo>git add trace1 U:\foo>git commit trace1 -m "testing" error: unable to find cecae5b4c87ea21aef513fcfcd5c27fe87e0536f fatal: cecae5b4c87ea21aef513fcfcd5c27fe87e0536f is not a valid object U:\foo>git cat-file -p cecae5b4c87ea21aef513fcfcd5c27fe87e0536f 100644 blob b02e7c87fe376a353ea4f014bdb3f5200a946b37 foo1 100644 blob 2cbf64f759a62392ad9dfe1fb9c2cdb175876014 foo2 100644 blob 19102815663d23f8b75a47e7a01965dcdc96468c test.txt 100644 blob c9009b02950964cf1d5281125e6e2f647dd9dc16 trace1 U:\foo> David -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Rast [mailto:trast@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:42 PM To: David Goldfarb Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: trouble on windows network share David Goldfarb <deg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Git works correctly under Linux (Ubuntu 12.04; git 1.7.9.5). I've attached the strace outputs. (Note: for reasons that are probably irrelevant, I needed to run the commands sudo'd. Shout back if this is an issue). > > Under Windows 7, Cygwin git 1.7.9, commit fails: > U:\foo>git commit -m "added foo2" > error: unable to find 0b89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 > fatal: 0b89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 is not a valid > object > > For what it's worth, note that the file does exist. > U:\foo>ls -l .git/objects/0b > total 1024 > -rwxrw-r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 74 May 5 01:15 > 89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 > > (I'm not sure why the permissions are trashed. Seems to be a Cygwin thing, or maybe my Cygwin config. The "??????" also appears on local files, and I believe also with files on the old Buffalo drive, so I don't think it is relevant to the problem). Just in case, here's the same dir, as seen from the Ubuntu VM: > > deg@ubuntu:/mnt/users/foo$ ls -l .git/objects/0b > total 64 > -rwxr-xr-x 0 root root 74 May 5 01:15 > 89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 > > Again, note that there is some user permissions lossage here. I don't know enough about Linux mount or CIFS, and apparently did the mount in a way that everything seems to appear to be stuck owned by root. (same problem I hinted at above). Hope this is not relevant to the problem. > > Here's how the same directory looks, when I'm ssh'd into the NAS box itself: > > CentralPark:/shares/Users/foo# ls -l .git/objects/0b > total 64 > -rwxrw-r-- 1 deg share 74 May 5 01:15 > 89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 > > In any event, the symptoms don't seem to be a permissions problem, so all this extra info is probably just a red herring, I hope. Hrm. What about what Jeff already asked of the OP (and AFAICS never got a reply)? } If it's a race condition between the write and the subsequent read in } the same process, then it would be solved by looking at the object } later. Does "git cat-file -p 6838761d549cf76033d2e9faf5954e62839eb25d" } work, or is the object forever inaccessible? In your case: git cat-file -p 0b89efdeef245ed6a0a7eacc5c578629a141f856 -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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