mysterious GIT failure

[matthew patton]

On Friday, January 15, 2021, 12:09:30 PM EST, Brian Inglis <brian.inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
 
 > Given that you have the same symptom, it is possible that Git-Bash or something > else you are running in Windows is creating symlinks somewhere, 
I only installed Git-Bash out of desperation and it's msys.dll (fork of cygwin.dll) is v 3.1.7 and dated late December after Cygwin team published this patch. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=aec6479820fee5f71d50930bf0dde2bbf386bd4b