Hi, Arnout Engelen wrote: > When creating a temporary file, log the template. Since mkstemp modifies its template, these hopefully would print the actual filename on errors. Examples: fatal: Unable to create temporary file '.merge_file_Sc7R5c': File exists fatal: Unable to create temporary file 'newrepo/.git/tOWHcxk': No space left on device Unfortunately some mkstemp()s (such as that used to implement git_mkstemp_mode()) clear the template on error, which would result in fatal: Unable to create temporary file '': Permission denied What should git do in this situation? > Useful for making debugging > problems like file permission mistakes easier. Agreed. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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