Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 19:46 UTC
Message-ID: <200901071346.41658.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <slrngm9rdm.gcv.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>

On Wednesday 2009 January 07 12:00:22 Sitaram Chamarty wrote:

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> On 2009-01-07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 2009 January 07 04:55:56 you wrote:
> >> So when you say "group", you're saying "0660", and when you
> >> say "0660", you're overriding users umask value.
> >
> > it could just have been the version of git I was using (1.4.4.4, IIRC)
> > -- still using that in at least one place, as it is the current
> > version in Debian Etch.
>
> 1.4.4.4 is 2 years and 2 days old today!  [I've heard
> stories about Debian, but never thought it was this
> conservative!]

Once a stable is released, no new versions of packages come in, only backported bug and security fixes. The pre-release freeze also limits new versions from being considered. Lenny should be out RSN, so I can move up to 1.5.6.5. :)

$ apt-cache policy git-core
git-core:
  Installed: 1:1.4.4.4-4
  Candidate: 1:1.4.4.4-4
  Version table:
     1:1.6.0.6-1 0
        300 http://localhost experimental/main Packages
     1:1.5.6.5-2 0
        700 http://localhost testing/main Packages
        500 http://localhost unstable/main Packages
     1:1.5.6.5-1~bpo40+1 0
        800 http://localhost etch-backports/main Packages
 *** 1:1.4.4.4-4 0
        900 http://localhost stable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.4.4.4-2.1+etch1 0
        900 http://localhost stable/updates/main Packages

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