On 2020-11-10 06:35, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote: >> From: Cygwin <cygwin-boun...@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Adam >> Dinwoodie >> Sent: 10 November 2020 13:57 >> Subject: Re: Git shows nothing in cmd.exe >> >> Thoughts below partly for my own reference, and partly in case anyone else >> – including but not limited to Panos! – manages to take things further before >> I do. >> >> I can't see anything obviously wrong here. There's two key oddities that >> might be causing problems, though: >> >> - Cygwin is installed in `C:\Program Files\Cygwin`; that _should_ work, but >> it's >> atypical, and spaces in filenames are a common source of problems. >> >> - This is a relatively old installation; I've not checked anything else, but >> Cygwin >> Git v2.21.0-1 was released in May 2019 and there have been a bunch of >> updates since then. I can't remember anything with these symptoms from >> that time, however. >> >> I'm also curious about the Git configuration here, as I can see a bunch of >> ways >> that could cause problems. I don't have the Cygwin bin directory in my path >> to test this immediately, but for example `git branch -a` will try to call a >> pager >> – `less` by default` – so I could imagine there being a PATH problem or >> similar >> that's resulting in a duff pager call that's eating the output. > > Adam, thank you very much! You found our issue. It is the "less" command from > GnuWin32 that caused the problem: > > C:\>where less > C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\less.exe > C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\less.exe > > C:\>rename "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\less.exe" less-OLD.exe > > C:\>cd dev\Projects\TSSO_WKS\tsso-workstation-configuration > > C:\DEV\Projects\TSSO_WKS\tsso-workstation-configuration>git branch -a > * master > remotes/origin/master > > It now displays correctly the branches.
Gnuwin32 *latest* package updates seem to be 10 years ago, some nearly 20. Suggest deleting those and using current *mingw64*/msys Windows tools instead as they are maintained with recent security fixes. You should also be careful with PATHs using different toolchains: switch them completely, or layer them carefully, to avoid these issues. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
