From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:59:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git repack fails if .git/objects/pack is on a separate partition
Message-ID: <201010190859.43098.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1287469706023-5649732.post@n2.nabble.com>

Marat Radchenko wrote:
> fatal: unable to rename temporary pack file: Invalid cross-device link
> error: failed to run repack
> 
> Reason:
> write_pack_file in builtin/pack-objects.c first writes tmp file in
> "pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX". 

What's your git version?  Since 8b4eb6b (Do not perform
cross-directory renames when creating packs, 2008-09-22), which was
first released in 1.6.0.3 and 1.6.1, it should only create and rename
files within the pack/ subdirectory.  Which is what you are implying
in the above snippet, but this should never result in a cross-device
rename, so maybe I'm missing something.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch