From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:23:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Git rebase -i failing on cygwin -- git checkout-index says File Exists
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901210022290.15160@racer>
In-Reply-To: <4285cd450901201444g711626afm296bf372a100b999@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Ludvig Strigeus wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ludvig Strigeus <strigeus@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe this command log is useful. I got this while aborting the 
> > rebase. Looks like some file creation race condition? Windows doesn't 
> > allow files to be deleted while they're open.
> 
> I believe I found the source of my problems with git rebase. I had an 
> editor open that wanted to reload the files when changed, and this 
> seemed to conflict with git's file manipulations. After closing the 
> editor, I don't get the mysterious errors anymore.

Yep, that's a Windows issue.  Once you keep a file open in an editor, it 
cannot be overwritten/deleted.

Live with it, or upgrade to a real operating system :-)

Ciao,
Dscho