I remember hitting this a while ago, but just gave up. It seems to be a problem for others too. Any ideas on how to debug this so it can be patched? -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lindbergh Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 18:07 To: cygwin Subject: Re: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object" On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > [copy off list, because the sourceware system admins throws temper tantrums] >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave L >> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 15:30 >> >> ...but the git from github.com works fine. >> >> I installed Cygwin's version of git, and get this: >> >> $ git clone https://github.com/nerdfever/pic32mx-bmf >> Cloning into 'pic32mx-bmf'... >> remote: Counting objects: 12, done. >> remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> error: failed to read delta-pack base object >> 300bdeb2fd209d24afb865584da10b78aa8fefc4 >> fatal: unpack-objects failed > > What file system are you on? Local NTFS or remote? Aha - you're right. It works fine on a local NTFS volume. I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a network drive (on another Windows box). Is there a workaround? Why does this happen? --Dave -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- 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