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cygwin git default web browser

I just installed git using cygwin. I then tried using git help status but I received the error fatal: '/usr/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory. And indeed, there is no folder git-doc in ...
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cygwin git documentation

I just installed git using cygwin. I then tried using git help status but I received the error fatal: '/usr/share/doc/git-doc': not a documentation directory. And indeed, there is no folder git-doc in ...
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Cygwin won't start Gitk

Hey I have followed this answer to solve problem with running GUI applications under Cygwin. So far it seems okay, but when I try to open gitk it will complain on that it cannot find any git ...
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How to install git-cola in cygwin?

This might be a stupid question, however I can't get it working. I know it has been ported. I've found both the sources and the binaries. I've downloaded all the files from here and tried cygwin ...
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Setting up SSH/Git on Cygwin yields “Bad permissions on ~/.ssh/config”

I'm attempting to setup Git with OpenSSH under Cygwin. I almost got everything setup. I have the agent and public key and all that.. but now I get this really weird error: $ git pull -u origin master ...
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Cygwin cannot create .ssh

I'm having some trouble using Git with cygwin. "Could not create directory '/home/Craig/.ssh'. The authenticity of host 'github.com (207.97.227.239)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint ...
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Error on git clone in cygwin: error: inflate: data stream error (invalid code lengths set)

I am trying to clone a repository using git on cygwin. Machine is a Windows XP machine, running a newly updated version of cygwin I have cloned this repository without any trouble previously, but on ...
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Cygwin - Repo with Separate Git/Working Dir Doesn't Work

Since I've switched to OS X and Vim, I've found it easiest to manage all of my 'dotfiles' (all of my configuration files and miscellaneous scripts) with Git. Having already set up my dotfiles in a ...
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How can I make files I check out with git on Windows writable by default in Cygwin?

I'm developing on Windows and I prefer to run git and build commands from the Windows command line, but I also enjoy using cygwin sometimes when I want to just explore the project repository using my ...
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Can Git GPG program be used for s3cmd?

My ultimate goal is to be able to put files onto my Amazon EC2 server. After a month of failed attempts at getting SSH access to the server, I have decided to try s3cmd and eventually migrate files ...
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Why does sed cause git to consider the entire file rewritten?

Using Cygwin on Win7x32, when I use sed to replace some values in a file, git then considers the entire file to be completely rewritten (i.e., 500 insertions, 500 deletions). What's going on here? ...
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Using git through cygwin on windows 8

I've got a windows 8 dev preview (not sure if it's relevant, but I never had this hassle on w7) machine and I'm trying to clone a git repo from github. The problem is that my ~/.ssh/id_rsa has 440 ...
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fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Invalid argument

Upon doing git add . I get the following message - fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Invalid argument I am using git on cygwin on Windows 7 What does this mean?
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gVim as git editor under cygwin

I use msysgit and I'd like to have gvim as my git editor. I use cygwin bash instead of git bash. Running $ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim73/gvim.exe starts gvim. But if I set this ...
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Make msysgit work with cygwin ssh?

git-upload-pack errors occur when sshing into cygwin. sshd in cygwin does not take paths from .bash_profile as expected in a *nix environment. What is the way to remedy this and make msysgit work ...
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cygwin git status and tortoise git commit show different changes

On my Win7 Pro 64-bit machine I have TortoiseGit and cygwin with git. If I try to find the pending changes I do get different results from cygwin and TortoiseGit. I'm sure the result of cygwin git is ...
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Mount drive at /Volumes/NAME/ or similar in Cygwin

I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7. When I plug in an USB stick, the drive automatically gets mounted to /cygdrive/x . This is good and really easy to use. My problem is that the drive letter changes ...
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Cygwin git pull not a command

All of a sudden git pull stopped working on cygwin. It gives me this recursive error message. git: 'pull' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean this? pull I can do a git ...
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Cygwin/Git Bizarre Terminal Issue

Alright, this is weird. First off, this is mintty running on up-to-date cygwin, with git pulled from cygwin's setup.exe. I am running zsh. $ git clone ...
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Why is tortoise-git changing my file permissions?

I switch between using tortoise git and cmd line git on cygwin very frequently, and lately I've noticed that when I git status via cygwin and no changes are found, then I go to use tortoise git, and ...