cygwin warning about FAST_CWD

[jmelas]

On latest Windows Canary build 10.0.27802.1000
git producess warnings via cygwin:

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

seems related to this:
msys2/msys2-runtime#154

[dscho]

Hey @jmelas thank you for reporting this! Could you please download the install artifact from this workflow run, extract its usr\bin\msys-2.0.dll and (temporarily) replace that file in your existing Git for Windows installation, then try again? As you can see from the age of that build, I have been asking people for two weeks to test whether this fixes the problem they encounter.

[jmelas]

Hi Johannes! Thank you for your response! I confirm this works fine now! Thank you so much!

[dscho]

/add relnote bug On a recent Insider Windows version, users experienced the message: "Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer", which has been fixed.

The workflow run was started

[davidldennison]

Can confirm that updating to 2.49-rc1 has fixed the issue on Windows Canary build 27802.rs_prerelease.250222-1646

Was driving my crazy because I was sure I hadn't touched Cygwin in months. haha Thanks for releasing such a quick fix!

[dscho]

@davidldennison thank you for testing!