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Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"

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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 7, 2009, 18:00 UTC
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<200901070948.34117.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
On 2009-01-07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2009 January 07 04:55:56 you wrote:
>> So when you say "group", you're saying "0660", and when you
>> say "0660", you're overriding users umask value.
> it could just have been the version of git I was using (1.4.4.4, IIRC) --=20
> still using that in at least one place, as it is the current version in=20
> Debian Etch.

1.4.4.4 is 2 years and 2 days old today! [I've heard stories about Debian, but never thought it was this conservative!]

and I think this was fixed in 06cbe85, last April.
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