From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:09:49 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510050902430.28854@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20051005155457.GA30303@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>

On 10/5/05, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> Still does not work for me. I cannot isolate the problem out of git,
> but at the moment the only way for me to make commit_index_file to work
> is to put unlink(indexfile) before rename(cf->lockfile, indexfile).

I don't know how Cygwin implemented rename(), but if they used MoveFile() 
they broke the POSIX rename() since MoveFile() fails if destination 
already exists. They should have used MoveFileEx(MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING)
instead, to guarantee POSIX semantics. The symptoms you're experiencing 
make me think this might be the case (even if it is strange, since other 
Unix software would fail the same way).


- Davide