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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:58:22 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Jonas Fonseca wrote:

>   user@machine /usr/local/dev/git/git
>   $ git-log
>   fatal: Not a git repository
>=20
>   user@machine /usr/local/dev/git/git
>   $ GIT_DIR=3D.git git-log | wc -l
>   26094

That could have its cause in your .git/HEAD being no symlink. That happen=
s=20
when rsync=B4ing the .git directory.

The other errors could also stem from the fact that quite a few places=20
expect HEAD to be a symlink.

Ciao,
Dscho

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