gitstatus failed to initialize on Cygwin
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Description
System information:
zsh: 5.8
uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 <hostname> 3.6.0-api-356.x86_64 2025-01-24 17:35 UTC x86_64
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Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the initialization failure on the reported Cygwin and zsh environment, then trace the gitstatus initialization path; done means gitstatus initializes successfully there and the failure is covered by a regression test.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, git, zsh
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100