The problem is that you do not have any of Certification Authority certificates installed on your system. And these certs cannot be installed with cygwin’s setup.exe. Update: Install Net/ca-certificates package in cygwin (thanks dirkjot) There are two solutions: Actually install root certificates. Curl guys extracted for you certificates from Mozilla. cacert.pem file is what you … Read more
Use: cd /cygdrive/c
First, turn off compression: git config –global core.compression 0 Next, let’s do a partial clone to truncate the amount of info coming down: git clone –depth 1 <repo_URI> When that works, go into the new directory and retrieve the rest of the clone: git fetch –unshallow or, alternately, git fetch –depth=2147483647 Now, do a regular … Read more
Usually, uname with its various options will tell you what environment you’re running in: pax> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 IBM-L3F3936 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin pax> uname -s CYGWIN_NT-5.1 And, according to the very helpful schot (in the comments), uname -s gives Darwin for OSX and Linux for Linux, while my Cygwin gives CYGWIN_NT-5.1. But you … Read more
Update September 2015 (6 years later) The last release of git-for-Windows (2.5.3) now includes: By configuring git config core.editor notepad, users can now use notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring git config format.commitMessageColumns 72 will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edits it. See commit 69b301b … Read more
As a simplification, it’s like this: Compile something in Cygwin and you are compiling it for Cygwin. Compile something in MinGW and you are compiling it for Windows. About Cygwin Cygwin is a compatibility layer that makes it easy to port simple Unix-based applications to Windows, by emulating many of the basic interfaces that Unix-based … Read more