Re: Strange unable to unlink error with git-prune-packed

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

When I invoke git-prune-packed I am greeted by (3-line sample):

error: unable to unlink .git/objects/43/2251e8488dc3c72d94d698ed69003137c47244
error: unable to unlink .git/objects/43/6bc8b274ab96944a6f8c3cf5e3fbeef422042b
error: unable to unlink .git/objects/43/fe47e9508289ad4eca71613a9f20d7f3323602

Does it happen for all your files? All your repositories? Or just one 
repo? Or just one subdirectory in that repo?

The code is _literally_ just doing a

	if (unlink(pathname) < 0)
		error("unable to unlink %s", pathname);

but maybe you could just make it print out the reason too. So add a "(%s)" 
and a "strerror(errno)" to that error line..

$ ls -la .git/objects/43
total 24
drwxr-xr-x    5 martin  martin   170  4 Jan 17:37 .

I don't see why you couldn't unlink those files. Maybe it's some strange 
HFS issue and you can't just unlink() things that have attributes or 
something? Maybe some crazy file manager has added a default icon 
attribute to your files if you happened to look at the .git objects 
directory?

		Linus