misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

[Ken Brown]

On 1/15/2021 12:09 PM, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
> I excised the 2 symlink-involved PATH elements and now Git runs great with v3.1.5 of the DLL. I'll try one of the snapshots at some point,

You've almost certainly run into the same bug that was fixed in 
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=aec6479820fee5f71d50930bf0dde2bbf386bd4b, 
but it would be appreciated if you would confirm this by testing a snapshot.

Ken