[vlc-devel] Trying to use git under Windows to create a patch

[jboileau]

Hi,

It is my first attempt at creating a patch and I am having some
problems. My environment is Win32 and Cygwin. According to the wiki
there are problems using git under Cygwin which I do have experienced.
Next is to use git under a simple Windows command window which I did.
It seems to have done most, if not all the job but I am getting an
error message. Is this a problem?

C:\cygwin>c:\cygwin\bin\git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /vlc/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Counting objects: 31922
remote: Done counting 249474 objects.
remote: Deltifying 249474 objects...
remote:  100% (249474/249474) done
remote: Total 249474 (delta 199401), reused 208634 (delta 166470)
Receiving objects: 100% (249474/249474), 118.73 MiB | 110 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (199401/199401), done.
      3 [main] git 4648 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load
shell32, Win32 error 487
/usr/bin/git-clone: line 514:  4648 Hangup                  git read-tree -m -u
$v HEAD HEAD


Jacques Boileau