On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Juergen Ruehle wrote: >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. Actually, Cygwin's rename has a specific check to make sure that the file is deleted. It tries very hard to do things the right way but if your samba server doesn't return the correct error code then it is possible that it could be confused. cgf - : 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