Just tripped over the same problem and found a solution. Posting it here, just in case I’ll ever have to look it up again. Set up a bin directory right under /home/my-username: cd ~ mkdir bin Move the composer.phar (or any other of those nifty new PHP imps that are on the rise) into the … Read more
The process is locked from Windows most likely. The error you are getting “couldnt open PID XXX” points to this. To confirm try killing it with windows taskkill taskkill /PID 4760
Edit 2018: Since my 2010-2012-2014 answer, in 2015 Git for Windows uses msys2, as I detail here. See more in “How are msys, msys2, and msysgit related to each other?”. Edit (2 more years later: October 2014) Johannes Schindelin just explained (Oct. 2014) that msysgit is phased out: We now have a light-weight Git for … Read more
Rebasing my Cygwin install solved this for me. I followed the doc Rebaseall, running dash as admin from Windows Explorer and then issuing the following: /usr/bin/rebaseall -v P.S.: No Cygwin service should be running for this to work.
To get accented letters on bash via Cygwin using Mintty 1.1.2 just do the following: Go to the menu (if you don’t see any menu, right click on your Terminal). Click Options…. Click Text. Change the Locale to C. Change the Character set to ISO-8859-1 (Western European). Then test it:
Use the shell function to execute the cygpath utility with the -w flag. Example: BAR := /cygdrive/c/foo/bar WIN_BAR := $(shell cygpath -w ${BAR}) cygpath accepts a lot of additional options. See the man page for details.
For anyone looking to change an existing TortoiseGit installation to use PuTTY rather than OpenSSH, simply right-click, -> TortoiseGit -> Settings -> Network, then change ‘ssh.exe’ to ‘tortoiseplink.exe’. From then on, doing a push/pull should be using Pageant (and any keys you have set up in there) if you also have that running.
I confirm that git and msysgit can coexist on the same computer, as mentioned in “Which GIT version to use cygwin or msysGit or both?”. Git for Windows (msysgit) will run in its own shell (dos with git-cmd.bat or bash with Git Bash.vbs) Update 2016: msysgit is obsolete, and the new Git for Windows now … Read more
Add set bell-style none to .inputrc in your home directory. You need to start a new shell for this to take effect; that may be why your test didn’t work.
You have to install the make command. Run the Cygwin installation/configuration program, setup-x86_64.exe or setup-x86.exe (you should already have it, downloaded from here). When you get to the screen that lets you select packages to install, find make and select it (it’s probably under “Development” or something similar). Then you’ll be able to run make … Read more