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

On 5/30/07, Paolo Teti [off-list ref] wrote:

2007/5/30, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref]:

quoted

Hi,

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?

I hate clearcase, but honestly I have used it forced by a customer..
The real problem is why you need to do a repack in a CC view, but..

I don't like it either :) But you remind me the Matthias' workdir
patchset. With that I can move out .git to a real drive/filesystem
(which should also give better performance).

I think it's a valid use case. Anyone remember why Matthias' patchset
was dropped?
It was last mentioned in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/43041

Junio, Matthias? May I help?

to move a file in a Clearcase view you have to use 'cleartool mv ...'
(or 'cleartool relocate') and not the UNIX mv command...

'cleartool mv' is used for clearcase-manages files. My git repository
are private files.

..and he directory where the element to be moved or renamed resides
must be checked out.

-- 
Duy