Hi Peff, On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:29:39PM -0400, Sean Krauth wrote: > > > This seemed like about as good of an excuse as any to update Git. I > > was running v. 2.5.1-32-bit and so I downloaded v. 2.6.2-32-bit, > > installed it. And it ran, kinda. I no longer seem to have access to > > any of my old commits and when I try to "git init" or "git status" I > > get the above error, "fatal: Unable to read current working directory: > > No error". This error pops up for anything, even new files that never > > had a repository. > > That message means that getcwd() is failing. Quite possible. If the path is too long, for example, that might happen. We have support for `core.longpaths` in Git for Windows, but it will only help to a certain extent. > It sounds like you're on a Windows system, and the problem may be > system-specific. You might try asking at the specific Git for Windows > list: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/git-for-windows > > though many of those people do frequent this list, too. Actually, I would much prefer proper bug reports in the GitHub issue tracker, as described in https://git-for-windows.github.io/#contribute (in particular, I would like bug reporters to at least *skim* the guide lines https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Issue-reporting-guidelines; you would be surprised how many reports leave out pretty much all interesting metadata, essentially stating "something broke, somewhere", hoping that I can reproduce magically some vaguely described issue, which of course I cannot, but I still have to spend hours just to figure that out). I would like to keep the Google Group only for Windows-specific questions that do not necessarily involve a bug in our software. Ciao, Dscho -- 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