Using Cygwin (1.7.21) with latest Git from Cygwin Ports (1.8.3.1) causes intermittent failures with "git clone". Example
$ git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg Cloning into 'ffmpeg'... remote: Counting objects: 313620, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (66836/66836), done. remote: Total 313620 (delta 248823), reused 310587 (delta 246286) Receiving objects: 100% (313620/313620), 77.14 MiB | 389.00 KiB/s, done. fatal: pack is corrupted (SHA1 mismatch) fatal: index-pack failed More info http://stackoverflow.com/q/17764079/clone-failing-at-large-depths Workaround is to use non Cygwin Ports Git. -- 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
