From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:20:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix update-index --refresh for submodules if stat(2) returns st_size 0
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807211917440.8986@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080721173511.GB5387@steel.home>

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:

> For example - Cygwin.

Please enhance: your oneline is too long, and your commit message body too 
short.

> Can MSys folks please try it? I noticed it when the test
> t2103-update-index-ignore-missing.sh (the 5th case) started failing.

Since M$' documentation says "This member does not have a meaning for 
directories." about the member nFileSizeLow of WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA 
which we use to implement a sane "lstat()", I think this bug hits MinGW 
(not MSys) as well.

Ciao,
Dscho