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Re: Problem adding a symlinkg

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2010, 12:01 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:17, Arnaud Bailly <abailly@oqube.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to add some symlink to git and got the following error:
>
> error: readlink("protoc/Linux-x86-2.6.28/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so"): Invalid argument

Is the file in fact a symlink? Maybe it was replaced by a file while Git was adding it? If it is reproducable, could you strace "git add" and post the trace here?

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