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Re: [MinGW port] Unable to repack on Clearcase dynamic views

From: Johannes Sixt <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:13

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
On clearcase dynamic views (kind of virtual drives), "mv -f a b" won't
work if "a" is read-only. Because git-repack.sh removes all write
permission before moving packs, it fails on clearcase dynamic views.

My approach is rather ugly. Does anyone have a better solution?
If you do two 'git repack -a -d' in a row, the second one fails even
with this patch, right? To fix it, you must 'chmod u+w' in the for-loop
right above this hunk, too.

Since you 'chmod a-w' after the mv, why not just remove the first ones
before the first mv? Then you can get rid of the second try.

-- Hannes
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/git-repack.sh b/git-repack.sh
index acb78ba..76a9525 100755
--- a/git-repack.sh
+++ b/git-repack.sh
@@ -86,10 +86,22 @@ else
        mv -f "$PACKTMP-$name.idx"  "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.idx" &&
        test -f "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.pack" &&
        test -f "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.idx" || {
-               echo >&2 "Couldn't replace the existing pack with updated one."
-               echo >&2 "The original set of packs have been saved as"
-               echo >&2 "old-pack-$name.{pack,idx} in $PACKDIR."
-               exit 1
+               # Clearcase dynamic views do not allow to move file without write permission
+               # Try the second time with write allowed
+               chmod u+w "$PACKTMP-$name.pack"
+               chmod u+w "$PACKTMP-$name.idx"
+
+               mv -f "$PACKTMP-$name.pack" "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.pack" &&
+               mv -f "$PACKTMP-$name.idx"  "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.idx" &&
+               test -f "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.pack" &&
+               test -f "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.idx" || {
+                       echo >&2 "Couldn't replace the existing pack with updated one."
+                       echo >&2 "The original set of packs have been saved as"
+                       echo >&2 "old-pack-$name.{pack,idx} in $PACKDIR."
+                       exit 1
+               }
+               chmod a-w "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.pack"
+               chmod a-w "$PACKDIR/pack-$name.idx"
        }
        rm -f "$PACKDIR/old-pack-$name.pack" "$PACKDIR/old-pack-$name.idx"
 fi

--
Duy
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