On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:44 +0200 Petr Bena <benapetr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I installed git on my system using official package from git-scm.com > but I can't launch it, I am always getting this error: > > C:\Users\petr.bena>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i > 0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 > error 487 AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68570000, RegionSize > 0x40000, State 0x10000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe: *** > Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0 > > > At some point this could be an issue with cygwin, but I am not sure. > Did anyone had similar issue? Does [1] help? I wonder, why the error message mentions Cygwin though. One reason might be is that MinGW is originally a fork of some very early Cygwin release so may be some error message is lingering there, unmodified. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/24406417/720999 -- 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