Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:01:44 +0200

I have two 'crashes' during installation. I attached snapshots of
the requesters. I don't know how to copy text from the installer.
Therefore I attached snapshots.

Hmm... how do I get started? I naively chose cygwin as my shell. I
set

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/msysgit/bin

then I tried

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git 
c:/msysgit/bin/git-clone: line 214: git-init: command not found

Maybe it's related to the errors during installation?

How can I build and install git manually, based on the result of
GitMe-3's basic setup?

Ok, first, which system is this? Windows 2000/XP/Vista?
(The Gitme installer doesn't work on old ones for now)

Try running gitme from a terminal. Download gitme-3.exe into C:\temp, 
open a native terminal (Start - Run - Type "cmd" <enter>); then in the 
terminal, type:
    C:\temp> set PATH=%WINDIR%\system32;%WINDIR%
    C:\temp> gitme-3

Does it work then? If so, the problem is likely to be that you have 
Cygwin in the system path, which is not advisable/compatible with MSys.

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.marius

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