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Comments: In-reply-to Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>    message dated "Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:43:42 -0700."
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:27:30 -0800
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From: Kevin Layer <layer@franz.com>
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Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:

>> According to Kevin Layer on 1/8/2010 11:01 AM:
>> > Has anyone in the cygwin group reproduced this?
>> 
>> Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic
>> failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around
>> by switching over to an http protocol.  I'm assuming that it might either
>> be BLODA or an actual bug in cygwin1.dll regarding handling of socket fds
>> across forks, but haven't ever been bothered by it enough to try and debug
>> it, because the workaround of http always works.

Some of us can't use git w/HTTP, so I hope this gets fixed sooner
rather than later.

Kevin

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