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diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex_fails_to_initialize_under_Windows_with_cygwin/comment_1_24d626923403b097f57bc3d3a8c5befa._comment b/doc/bugs/git-annex_fails_to_initialize_under_Windows_with_cygwin/comment_1_24d626923403b097f57bc3d3a8c5befa._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8610061d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex_fails_to_initialize_under_Windows_with_cygwin/comment_1_24d626923403b097f57bc3d3a8c5befa._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.114" + subject="comment 1" + date="2014-04-27T00:13:49Z" + content=""" +This looks similar to [[bugs/git-annex_fails_to_initialize_under_Windows]], which was solved by upgrading to a newer version of msysgit. + +git 1.7.9 is extremely old (years). Probably the empty commit that is done when switching to direct mode, precisely to avoid this problem, fails, because the pre-built git-annex for windows is targeting a modern version of git, from msysgit. +"""]] |