From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:48:21 GMT
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Message-ID: <86ejj8aakq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070716104342.GB24036@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de> writes:

> Hello,
> I narrowed it down. It is in "git checkout" if I copy the ".git" dir via
> "cp -a" and type in "git checkout" it breaks. And it _only_ breaks for
> subdirectories:
>
>         (faui04a) [/var/tmp/shit] git checkout
>         D       profiles/icpc
>         D       profiles/sithglan
>         D       sources/boot.msg
>         D       sources/busybox-config
>         D       sources/config
>         D       sources/easix.logo.16
>         D       sources/easixdm
>         D       sources/f2
>         D       sources/home-faumachine.tar.gz
>         D       sources/home-icpc.tar.gz
>         D       sources/home-simigern.tar.gz
>         D       sources/home-sithglan.tar.gz
>         D       sources/home-sitowert.tar.gz
>         D       sources/linuxrc
>         D       sources/rc.local
>
> and I also see that _one_ file in each subdirectory is checked out but the
> others are not.

Ok, stupidly trying one of our most frequently encountered problems:

Does it help to say
export CDPATH=""
in your root shell?

-- 
David Kastrup