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Subject:	Re: 1.5.25-15: git 1.6.1.2: fatal error during initial commit under Win98SE
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:58:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Alexey Lyubimov <alexeipobox <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> $ git commit -m "initial revision"
> fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Permission denied
> 
> Can anybody help me (or, at least, explain)?

Your problem is that Win98 is unsupported by Microsoft, and soon to be 
unsupported by cygwin.  I built the cygwin package of git assuming that you 
would be using a saner filesystem (in other words, the version of git that 
ships from cygwin.com assumes NTFS, which Win98 does not support); as a result, 
you have proven that my assumptions break on Win98.  In order to run git on 
this old of a platform, you will have to compile it from source yourself, and 
where I commented out the "NO_MMAP = YesPlease" line in git's Makefile, you 
will have to leave that line in effect.  Sorry, I'm not too keen on bending 
over backwards to support an obsolete system that I no longer have access to, 
which means I can't debug your problem.

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin git maintainer




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