From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:45:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] rebase -i: don't error out if $state_dir already exists
Message-ID: <CANiSa6gMA8ZHNjaGu+hG4HxUCa5g+s00E=kGMyqeSv5NNRCCeQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1366725724-1016-3-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Practically speaking, the only reason why a `mkdir $state_dir` would
> fail is because $state_dir already exists.

Would we ever get to this point in the code if it already exists?

Also, I had the feeling that the check it might fail if the user does
not have permissions to create the directory. Is there always
something else that will fail first?