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Re: Git force push fails after a rejected push (unpack failed)?

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Jul 7, 2015, 23:05 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:31:25PM +0200, X H wrote:
>
>> For the moment, I'm the only one pushing to the remote, always with
>> the same user (second user is planned). I use git-for-windows which is
>> based on MSYS2. I have mounted the network share with noacl option so
>> permissions should be handled by the Windows share. I'm in a group
>> which has read/write access. I have not configured
>> core.sharedrepository, I don't think it is useful with noacl since
>> unix group are not used in this case. The permission for the folder
>> above the file with permission denied is rw, but this file is read
>> only so if git try to modify it it won't work.
>
> Ah, so this is not a push to a server, but to a share mounted on the
> local box?
>
> That is leaving my realm of expertise. I'm not sure if it could be a
> misconfiguration in your share setup, or that git is trying to do
> something that would work on a Unix machine, but not on a Windows share.
> You might want to ask on the msysgit list:
>
>   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/msysgit

Is this possibly another case of Windows virus scanner interference? That could account for its variable nature.

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Message 4 of 17 in “Git force push fails after a rejected push (unpack failed)?”
  1. X HJul 7, 2015
  2. Jeff KingJul 7, 2015
  3. Jeff KingJul 7, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineJul 7, 2015
  5. Johannes SixtJul 8, 2015
  6. Jeff KingJul 8, 2015
  7. check_and_freshen_file: fix reversed success-checkJeff King, Jul 8, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2015
  9. check_and_freshen_file: fix reversed success-checkJeff King, Jul 8, 2015
  10. Johannes SixtJul 8, 2015
  11. Johannes SixtJul 9, 2015
  12. Jeff KingJul 9, 2015
  13. X HJul 11, 2015
  14. Jeff KingJul 13, 2015
  15. X HJul 13, 2015
  16. X HJul 8, 2015
  17. Johannes SixtJul 8, 2015

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