From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:28:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [MinGW port] Unable to repack on Clearcase dynamic views
Message-ID: <200705302028.15549.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0705300833t6f0639ddx2f507996e48d838c@mail.gmail.com>

onsdag 30 maj 2007 skrev Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:
> On 5/30/07, Paolo Teti <paolo.teti@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/5/30, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On clearcase dynamic views (kind of virtual drives), "mv -f a b" won't
> > > work if "a" is read-only. Because git-repack.sh removes all write
> > > permission before moving packs, it fails on clearcase dynamic views.
> > >
> > > My approach is rather ugly. Does anyone have a better solution?
> >
> > I hate clearcase, but honestly I have used it forced by a customer..
> > The real problem is why you need to do a repack in a CC view, but..
> 
> I don't like it either :) But you remind me the Matthias' workdir
> patchset. With that I can move out .git to a real drive/filesystem
> (which should also give better performance).
> 
> I think it's a valid use case. Anyone remember why Matthias' patchset
> was dropped?
> It was last mentioned in
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/43041
> 
> Junio, Matthias? May I help?

Wasn't because it's better to make .git a link to a repository somewhere 
else? Just a guess.

ln -s /somewhere/repo/.git .git

Works fine for me (yes, in a clearcase dynamic view).

BTW, Does anyone have something like git-cvsexportcommit for clearcase?

-- robin