Re: problem with insider build for windows and git

Hi Michael,

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Michael Gooch wrote:

when running commands like pull and clone I get the following message:

Cygwin WARNING:
  Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.  This typically occurs if you're using
  an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows.  Please update to the latest
  available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/.  If the problem 
persists,
  please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html

Windows build is version 1607, OS BUILD 15002.1001

I assume they broke something that cygwin was depending on.

This is not only a known problem, we already have a fix for it, too.

Please note that the recommended way [*1*] to report bugs in Git for
Windows would have led you to this ticket:

	https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1029

Please also note that this is only a warning, not an error. Even so, the
problem has been reported independently several times...

There have been enough real fixes have been accumulated in Git for
Windows' `master` branch, and the next official Git version is far enough
in the future [*2*] that it was time for a Git for Windows version,
including the fix for the FAST_CWD warning.

Ciao,
Johannes

Footnote *1*: https://git-for-windows.github.io/#contribute

Footnote *2*: http://tinyurl.com/gitCal suggests that Git v2.12.0 will be
released early February soon after Git Merge (and Git for Windows v2.12.0
will follow soon thereafter), and with no patches applied to the `maint`
branch since v2.11.0, I do actually not expect any v2.11.1 to happen
before v2.12.0 comes out.