Git Extensions: Win32 error 487: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0
2022-01-01
Question Git Extensions: Everything was working fine until yesterday. But suddenly I am get this error when I try to pull some repositories using git extensions C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe pull --progress "origin" Done 0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487 AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68560000, RegionSize 0x390000, State 0x10000 C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0 It is happening for all the repositories which I have cloned.…
Why is .gitignore not ignoring my files?
2022-01-01
Question See the image below. My .gitignore file should be ignoring all files in src/dist, but isn't. Answer .gitignore only ignores files that are not part of the repository yet. If you already git added some files, their changes will still be tracked. To remove those files from your repository (but not from your file system) use git rm --cached on them.