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Re: error with symlinks on OSX

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Mar 15, 2007, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20070315194410.GC29547@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<m2r6rqbfcy.fsf@ziti.local>
Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com> wrote:
> error: git-checkout-index: unable to create symlink Category/Makefile (Invalid argument)
> 
> Now while my file system isn't smart enough to tell the difference
> between t and T, it does support symlinks AFAIK.
Yes, it does support symlinks.  Is it possible that the name Category
already existed, but as a file?  Hmm.
 
-- 
Shawn.
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