Hi, On Mon, 26 May 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote: > Beginning with the referenced commit, the git project cannot be checked > out on Cygwin (and I assume cannot be checked out on Windows using > msysgit, though I have not verified this) as this commit introduces the > file "t/5100/nul." On Windows, the file name "nul" is reserved, > regardless of path, and cannot be created or deleted. It serves > essentially the same function as /dev/null. Even when referencing the full (or a relative) path? That's bad! > As a for instance of the troubles: > > git>git checkout -f origin/master > Previous HEAD position was a2f5be5... Merge branch > 'jk/maint-send-email-compose' into maint > error: git-checkout-index: unable to create file t/t5100/nul (File exists) > > As this commit is part of the published master branch, I am not sure the > correct resolution: leaving this commit in place means that any commit > between it and a commit fixing this will always cause an error on Cygwin > / Windows. Of course, it *is* on the published master branch. That's the case for all regressions: we do not rewrite history for them. As for the resolution, could you quickly try the 'my-next' branch of git://repo.or.cz/git/dscho.git? If that works, I'll send a proper patch to Junio. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
