On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Dave wrote: >> Ryan Stewart wrote: >> >>> But I've been tasked with investigating msysgit, which is the best >>> (only?) windoze port of git atm. >> >> Argh! MSYS and Cygwin are incompatible, because MSYS *is* Cygwin - or >> rather, it's an old and cut-down version of the cygwin1.dll. You are getting >> a strange variaton of the multiple-cygwin-dlls problem! >> > Well, thanks for all your help, guys. I guess this about wraps it up. > One thing still bugs me, though: I have a very similar config on both > computers, including msysgit, and scp works fine in the opposite > direction.
As I recall, msysgit screws with some of the windows environment variables... conceivably, one of those could be causing the problem that you're seeing - if it sets %HOME% for the user or some such. ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
