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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:09:44 -0800
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On 2/25/2011 3:24 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> I realize this report won't be terribly useful, but I did encounter
> a problem with the latest snapshot. I have a local git
> repository. With the snapshot, "git log" produces:
> 
>       0 [main] git 4944 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
> 
> This works fine up through the 20100924 snapshot and starts to fail
> on the 20100926 snapshot.
> 
> This only occurs on some of my git repositories. I was not able to
> reproduce it using the latest snapshot by just making a simple
> repository, adding a file, then running "git log".
> 
> This is on Windows XP Pro in case it matters (32-bit, all patches
> installed).
> 
> I wish I could be more helpful and provide a test case to reproduce
> it.

I was able to reproduce this using a clone of the git repository itself:

% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 tela 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110221 20:36:00 i686 Cygwin
% git clone git://github.com/git/git.git
Cloning into git...
remote: Counting objects: 134689, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39672/39672), done.
remote: Total 134689 (delta 100250), reused 126970 (delta 93150)
Receiving objects: 100% (134689/134689), 28.44 MiB | 621 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (100250/100250), done.
% cd git/
% git log
      0 [main] git 3088 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487


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