Re: Cygwin git and windows network shares

From: Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de>
Date: Jun 16, 2006, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <17554.48926.852000.679014@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>
In-Reply-To: <4492AAFA.20807@grin.se>

Niklas Frykholm writes:
 > I'm trying to use cygwin git (compiled from the 1.4.0 tarball) to create 
 > repository on a windows network share, but I get an error message.
 > 
 >     $ cd //computer/git/project
 >     $ git init-db
 >     defaulting to local storage area
 >     Could not rename the lock file?

cygwin's rename seems to be capable of overwriting an existing target only on NTFS. The following hack is a workaround, but is probably not safe.

diff --git a/lockfile.c b/lockfile.c
index 2346e0e..5e78211 100644
--- a/lockfile.c
+++ b/lockfile.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ int commit_lock_file(struct lock_file *l
 	strcpy(result_file, lk->filename);
 	i = strlen(result_file) - 5; /* .lock */
 	result_file[i] = 0;
+	unlink(result_file);
 	i = rename(lk->filename, result_file);
 	lk->filename[0] = 0;
 	return i;