This error has greeted me several times before in the past when working with Msysgit on Windows. It alway appears for no apparent reason; sometimes from one boot to the next, and sometimes it suddenly starts happening while the system is running. Once the error is there, it stays consistently at the very least until the next reboot. Sometimes it only happens for specific commands like “git log”, sometimes it seems to affect every cygwin command.
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