From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:56:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Git force push fails after a rejected push (unpack failed)?
Message-ID: <559D8E77.60401@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150708180539.GA12353@peff.net>

Am 08.07.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Jeff King:
> We also don't write objects directly, of course; we write to a temporary
> file and try to link them into place. It really sounds more like the
> "objects/d9" directory is where the permission problems are. But, hmm...

Not on Windows: A read-only file cannot be overwritten or removed, 
regardless of the permissions of the directory. We do treat this case 
mingw_rename, but I have a slight suspicion that this does not work 
sufficiently reliably on networked file systems.

-- Hannes