Hi, When you use git from cygwin to clone a repo which requires a password, your password when typed comes out as plain text, instead of being taken from your terminal silently (without echo). The clone thus fails. The same local machine, but using linux command line shows the same repo working; it queries for password against the terminal session properly.
Good example using linux using strace to show system calls: faisal@diamond:~/Desktop/0$ strace git clone https://faime...@collab.symbian.nokia.com/git/symbianapp.git . . . ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 pipe([3, 4]) = 0 pipe([5, 6]) = 0 pipe([7, 8]) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb75a6728) = 3040 close(8) = 0 read(7, "", 1) = 0 close(7) = 0 close(3) = 0 close(6) = 0 dup(5) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb773f000 _llseek(3, 0, 0xbfa15ed8, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) write(4, "capabilities\n", 13) = 13 read(3, Password: We see it querying for password on the terminal in linux. Contrasting that with cygwin which does not handle the password: faisal@ruby ~/temp/1 $ strace git clone https://faime...@collab.symbian.nokia.com/git/symbianapp.git . . . 36297 236291 [main] git-remote-https 7156 time: 1302204053 = time (0) 12732 249023 [main] git-remote-https 7156 __set_errno: virtual int fhandler_base::tcgetattr(termios*):1262 val 25 18 249041 [main] git-remote-https 7156 __set_errno: virtual int fhandler_base::tcsetattr(int, const termios*):1255 val 25 74 249115 [main] git-remote-https 7156 __set_errno: cygheap_fdget::cygheap_fdget(int, bool, bool):391 val 9 261 249376 [main] git-remote-https 7156 fhandler_base::fstat: here 17 249393 [main] git-remote-https 7156 time: 1302204053 = time (0) 16 249409 [main] git-remote-https 7156 fstat64: 0 = fstat (0, 0x28C9C8) 32 249441 [main] git-remote-https 7156 readv: readv (0, 0x28C9E4, 1) blocking, sigcatchers 0 27 249468 [main] git-remote-https 7156 fhandler_base_overlapped::wait_overlapped: normal read, 13 bytes 16 249484 [main] git-remote-https 7156 fhandler_base::read: returning 13, binary mode 14 249498 [main] git-remote-https 7156 readv: 13 = readv (0, 0x28C9E4, 1), errno 9 149 249647 [main] git-remote-https 7156 __set_errno: cygheap_fdget::cygheap_fdget(int, bool, bool):391 val 9 105 249752 [main] git-remote-https 7156 __set_errno: virtual int fhandler_base::tcsetattr(int, const termios*):1255 val 25 152 249904 [main] git-remote-https 7156 readv: readv (0, 0x28CAE4, 1) blocking, sigcatchers 0 I am using git in cygwin version 1.7.4. Cygwin is kicked off from the PuTTY program version 20101029 The same machine is running linux (via Virtual Box virtualisation), git version 1.7.1 I've seen this problem reported elsewhere (stackoverflow) but no solution. Any ideas what do to? Thanks, faisalmemonuk -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
