Re: Error writing loose object on Cygwin

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 12, 2006, 04:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607112132540.5623@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vr70r1ms5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Has anyone else seen this type of behavior before?  Any suggestions
> > on debugging this issue?
> 
> I would suggest raising this (politely) to Cygwin people.

Well, since it apparently works with W2000, and breaks with XP, I suspect it's actually Windows that just returns the wrong error code.

It's entirely possible that we should just make that whole

	if (ret == ENOENT)

go away. Yes, it's the right error code if a subdirectory is missing, and yes, POSIX requires it, and yes, WXP is probably just a horrible piece of sh*t, but on the other hand, I don't think git really has any serious reason to even care.

So we might as well say that if the link() fails for _any_ reason, we'll try to see if doing the mkdir() and re-trying the link helps.

		Linus