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Re: [PATCH] sha1_file: avoid bogus "file exists" error message

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IHIan Hilt <ian.hilt@gmx.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2008, 17:41 UTC
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
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> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Note that in both occasions that I've seen this failure, it has not been
> > due to a missing directory, or bad permissions
> 
> Actually, it was due to bad permissions. :-) Once git was fixed to
> actually say that, I figured out where to look to fix them.

This is strange since write_loose_object() which calls create_tmpfile() checks for EPERM. Perhaps this should be done in create_tmpfile()?

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