Note that MSYS2 Git-12.2.1 also has no such problem. On 2 May 2017 at 20:08, ankostis <ankostis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Windows, with Cygwin-git 02.12.2-1 the python command: > > pip install git+https://github.com/...` > > fails to work with the following error: > > ... > > Git-2.8.3 had no such problem. > > Any ideas?