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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/rsync_on_windows_broken_by_upgrade.mdwn | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/rsync_on_windows_broken_by_upgrade.mdwn b/doc/bugs/rsync_on_windows_broken_by_upgrade.mdwn index 1d14e5ee3..f761bf0c6 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/rsync_on_windows_broken_by_upgrade.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/rsync_on_windows_broken_by_upgrade.mdwn @@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ cygwin. `rsync user@host:file file` opens the ssh connection, but hangs up with a protocol error. Apparently it doesn't get even the protocol version message from the server. -This must be a missing file from cygwin, because if I run the same rsync -program from inside /cygwin/usr/bin, it works. strace found a missing -`charset.alias` file, but installing it didn't solve the problem. - Problem doesn't seem to affect the bundled ssh, just rsync. --[[Joey]] > Update: Apparently there are two ssh's! msysgit bundles one (did it used @@ -26,3 +22,17 @@ Problem doesn't seem to affect the bundled ssh, just rsync. --[[Joey]] > Using 2 ssh's that try to use config from different places seems like > a losing propisition. Need to find an rsync that works with git's ssh. > --[[Joey]] +> +> > Update: The git bin/ directory is only in PATH when inside "git bash". +> > This bug only seems to affect using git-annex that way. The git bash +> > PATH has `bin` before `cmd`. +> > +> > Also, git seems to work ok using the newer ssh from cygwin. +> > However, that ssh tries to write to a .ssh/known_hosts +> > in a cygwin location and so doesn't remember hosts. +> > +> > What a mess. You can install any version of Linux and get rsync, ssh, +> > git that all integrate and work together. Or you can use Windows and +> > enjoy the pain(TM) --[[Joey]] + + |