[ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.0.50-1.6bec21243d20 (TEST)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2021-10-01 11:38, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 10/1/2021 1:27 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>>> Installing "git" from the Cygwin repository seems to fix this problem.
>>>>     So I suggest uninstalling "git" and see if you can figure out where
>>>> the message is actually coming from.  It doesn't appear to be coming
>>>> from anything in my environment.  I must have "git" installed at home,
>>>> which is why I don't see the message there.
>>>
>>> I already tried moving my git executable out of the way, and I couldn't
>>> reproduce the problem.  Do you see the message at home if you do the 
>>> same?
>>
>> I don't see the problem at home. I do not have git installed there.
>>
>> I noticed that at work, I had a ~/.git directory.  I renamed that and
>> the problem went away.
> 
> Great, I'm glad you figured it out.  This might still be an emacs bug.  
> I'll see about getting it fixed.
> 
> Thanks for the report.

Sounds like a Version Control mode (M-X vc?) supporting git is 
installed, emacs is trying to enter some kind of git mode when a .git 
subdirectory is present, and is not finding either an emacs git.el or 
the git command in the PATH?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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