On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 01:13:39PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I created a test and essentially duplicated Peff's finding: this is a > > Windows-only issue. > > Indeed it is in our patches: > > https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/3a4c37b22 > > (short version: we carry some patches that simplify locking the config > file before building on top of it, and somehow we agreed back in the days > when this patch was written that it would be a good idea if that code > created leading directories.) Thanks for tracking it down. > I will fix this issue in Git for Windows, but I still think that my patch > brings a usability improvement: the error message is just so much more to > the point (will submit v2 in a moment). Yeah, I agree it is still worth doing. -Peff -- 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