For others who are lazy to open the link, solution is executing this as administrator from your bin folder from where git is installed: rebase.exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1.0.dll or reboot, but some people don't reboot their PC's ever, so you might prefer this. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes that fixed it, thanks :) > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov > <flatworm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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