Niklas Frykholm writes: > I'm trying to use cygwin git (compiled from the 1.4.0 tarball) to create > repository on a windows network share, but I get an error message. > > $ cd //computer/git/project > $ git init-db > defaulting to local storage area > Could not rename the lock file? cygwin's rename seems to be capable of overwriting an existing target only on NTFS. The following hack is a workaround, but is probably not safe. diff --git a/lockfile.c b/lockfile.c index 2346e0e..5e78211 100644 --- a/lockfile.c +++ b/lockfile.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ int commit_lock_file(struct lock_file *l strcpy(result_file, lk->filename); i = strlen(result_file) - 5; /* .lock */ result_file[i] = 0; + unlink(result_file); i = rename(lk->filename, result_file); lk->filename[0] = 0; return i; - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html