Re: Error writing loose object on Cygwin

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

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Has anyone else seen this type of behavior before?  Any suggestions
on debugging this issue?

I would suggest raising this (politely) to Cygwin people.

Well, since it apparently works with W2000, and breaks with XP, I suspect 
it's actually Windows that just returns the wrong error code.

It's entirely possible that we should just make that whole

	if (ret == ENOENT)

go away. Yes, it's the right error code if a subdirectory is missing, and 
yes, POSIX requires it, and yes, WXP is probably just a horrible piece of 
sh*t, but on the other hand, I don't think git really has any serious 
reason to even care. 

So we might as well say that if the link() fails for _any_ reason, we'll 
try to see if doing the mkdir() and re-trying the link helps.

		Linus