On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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 - : 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