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

This is addressed here: http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall

In short, close all windows and run this:

C:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe -c '/usr/bin/rebaseall -v'

This fixes all related issues with forking. I had issues with forking aspell from emacs as well as git.