On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > >> b) add "+++" at the places where you added the stat() and chmod(), >> c) and to send the question "is this a good implementation ?" to upstream git. >> >> I think your implementation makes sense. > > As I said in my other reply, I think that the problem would be addressed > more generally in compat/mingw.c. It is to be doubted highly that upstream > wants to handle cases such as "rename() cannot overwrite read-only files > on Windows" everywhere they call rename() because the platforms upstream > cares about do not have that problem. I'm not so sure. A quick test shows me that this is not the case for NTFS. Since this is over a network-share, the problem is probably server-side, and can affect other systems as well. So a work-around might be appropriate for all systems, no? -- 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