[chef] Git failures, Windows, Chef

[Jeff Blaine < >]

I can't be the only person experiencing frustration with Git on Windows,
which is essential do using any Windows box as a Chef Workstation of
course. I've been unable to find any reason and solution to the
following. If anyone has ideas, please share. I find it hard to believe
people use Windows as a Chef workstation on a daily basis with the
configuration below. What's the secret?

* Windows 8 (I had these same issues ~7 months ago) and Windows
  8.1 (now)
* Git 1.9.4 installer from git-scm.org
* Git-Bash as the command shell

I intermittently get:

  ERROR: Errno::EIO: Input/output error - CreateProcessW

... and then the command in question will work fine.

...or I get some unknown failure as part of 'knife cookbook site
install...' commands that also then leave me sitting on some
chef-vendor-XXXXX branch:

  

 
 ~/chef-repo (master)
  $ knife cookbook site install vagrant --verbose
  Installing vagrant to c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks
  Checking out the master branch.
  Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-vagrant) exists, switching to it.
  Downloading vagrant from the cookbooks site at version 0.2.0 to
c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/vagrant.tar.gz
  Cookbook saved: c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/vagrant.tar.gz
  Removing pre-existing version.
  Uncompressing vagrant version 0.2.0.
  removing downloaded tarball
  No changes made to vagrant
  Checking out the master branch.
  Installing dmg to c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks
  Checking out the master branch.
  Pristine copy branch (chef-vendor-dmg) exists, switching to it.
  Downloading dmg from the cookbooks site at version 2.2.0 to
c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/dmg.tar.gz
  Cookbook saved: c:/Users/Jeff/chef-repo/cookbooks/dmg.tar.gz
  Removing pre-existing version.
  Uncompressing dmg version 2.2.0.
  removing downloaded tarball
  3 files updated, committing changes
  ERROR: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit
with [0], but received '1'
  ---- Begin output of git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg ----
  STDOUT: On branch chef-vendor-dmg
  nothing to commit, working directory clean
  STDERR:
  ---- End output of git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg ----
  Ran git commit -m "Import dmg version 2.2.0" -- dmg returned 1

  

 
 ~/chef-repo (chef-vendor-dmg)
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