This is a quick and dirty fix for the broken "git cherry-pick -n" on some broken OS, which does not remove the directory entry after unlink succeeded(!) if the file is still open somewher. The entry is left but "protected": no open, no unlink, no stat. Very annoying. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> --- That should be enough to get going, but I have to say that the interface to lockfiles is really troublesome. Why has the caller close a handle it didn't open? Especially if there are perfect matches for the opening function (hold_locked_index) in form of commit and rollback? How about something like this (just interface): struct lock_file { struct lock_file *next; pid_t owner; int fd; char on_list; char filename[PATH_MAX]; }; struct lock_file *open_locked(const char *path, int die_on_error); struct lock_file *open_index_locked(int die_on_error); void commit_lock_file(struct lock_file *); /* always assuming .lock */ void rollback_lock_file(struct lock_file *); builtin-write-tree.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-write-tree.c b/builtin-write-tree.c index c88bbd1..d8284b4 100644 --- a/builtin-write-tree.c +++ b/builtin-write-tree.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ int write_tree(unsigned char *sha1, int missing_ok, const char *prefix) was_valid = cache_tree_fully_valid(active_cache_tree); + close(newfd); if (!was_valid) { if (cache_tree_update(active_cache_tree, active_cache, active_nr, @@ -36,8 +37,10 @@ int write_tree(unsigned char *sha1, int missing_ok, const char *prefix) die("git-write-tree: error building trees"); if (0 <= newfd) { if (!write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) - && !close(newfd)) + && !close(newfd)) { commit_lock_file(lock_file); + newfd = -1; + } } /* Not being able to write is fine -- we are only interested * in updating the cache-tree part, and if the next caller @@ -55,6 +58,8 @@ int write_tree(unsigned char *sha1, int missing_ok, const char *prefix) else hashcpy(sha1, active_cache_tree->sha1); + if (0 <= newfd) + close(newfd); rollback_lock_file(lock_file); return 0; -- 1.5.1.1.946.gdb75a - 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