From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:27:08 GMT Subject: Re: More problems... Message-ID: <20050429182708.GB14202@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050429170127.A30010@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:01:27PM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King told me that... > rmk@dyn-67:[linux-2.6-rmk]:<1049> cg-update origin > `../linux-2.6/.git/objects/00/78aeb85737197a84af1eeb0353dbef74427901' -> `.git/objects/00/78aeb85737197a84af1eeb0353dbef74427901' > cp: cannot create link `.git/objects/00/78aeb85737197a84af1eeb0353dbef74427901': File exists > > By that time, the object files in the reference tree appear to have > a newer timestamp than the corresponding ones in my local tree, and > cp -lua fails. I'm now away ,unfortunately, and no immediate idea stems to my mind on how to fix it. Ideas welcomed - I need to hardlink missing entries from one tree to another; it would be enough to be able to just tell cp to ignore already present files. Could you please try to give cp the -f flag? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor