From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:54:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612171550510.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <906f26060612170633h50e3e974h3b84f1829e546278@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Stefano Spinucci wrote:

> I just tried to use git writing to my FAT32 formatted usb stick.
> 
> On windows XP, I compiled git with and without NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT, but 
> after the following actions I always got the error "fatal: Unable to 
> write new index file" or "fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File 
> exists":

Come to think of it, I probably never tried to actually _commit_ on 
FAT32... Sorry.

I will not be able to test this scenario until Tuesday, though. Sorry 
again!

Ciao,