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Re: [PATCH] sha1_file: avoid bogus "file exists" error message

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Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date
Nov 26, 2008, 18:19 UTC
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<20081126181928.GA31007@kodama.kitenet.net>
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<20081120185628.GA25604@kodama.kitenet.net>
Joey Hess wrote:
> Note that in both occasions that I've seen this failure, it has not been
> due to a missing directory, or bad permissions

Actually, it was due to bad permissions. :-) Once git was fixed to actually say that, I figured out where to look to fix them.

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