Cygwin git fork() error on pull

Question

The basic problem is that sometimes when I do

git pull upstream master

I get

remote: Counting objects: 172, done.
remote: Comp         


        

Answer 1

OK, I guess I should share. I have the same problem, but I have a workaround. The problem seems to be the length of the PATH. If I do a git pull, I get the fork failure:

$ git pull*emphasized text*
      2 [main] git 7384 fork: child -1 - forked process 7420 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741515, errno 11
error: cannot fork() for rev-list: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: Could not run 'git rev-list'
remote: Counting objects: 728, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (456/456), done.
 907550 [main] git 7384 fork: child -1 - forked process 7436 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741515, errno 11
error: cannot fork() for index-pack: Resource temporarily unavailable
fatal: fetch-pack: unable to fork off index-pack

However, if I set the PATH to something really small before running git, it works:

$ PATH=/usr/bin git pull
remote: Counting objects: 728, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (456/456), done.
remote: Total 464 (delta 337), reused 9 (delta 6)
Receiving objects: 100% (464/464), 153.36 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (337/337), completed with 107 local objects.
From git://cmake.org/cmake

I would be interested if it works for any of you?