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From: Jakob Pfender <jpfender@elegosoft.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: casey@nrlssc.navy.mil, jon.seymour@gmail.com,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [RFD] git stash over OpenBSD/Linux NFS - cp -p breakage
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:08:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7F3AA4.1080202@elegosoft.com> (raw)

We have an NFS setup with Linux machines mounting an NFS that is hosted 
on an OpenBSD server. Recently, we discovered git-stash breaking with:

$ git stash
cp: preserving permissions for 
`/home/jpfender/stashtest/.git/.git-stash.3056-index': Operation not 
supported
Cannot save the current worktree state

This was discovered to be caused by a bug in cp that causes 'cp -p' to 
fail in this particular NFS setup - preserving permissions in an NFS 
shared across Linux and OpenBSD machines doesn't work.

I looked at git-stash.sh and could not discover a reason why it had to 
use 'cp -p'. I patched it to use only cp without preserving permissions, 
and everything seemed to work fine. All stash tests succeeded (bar two 
known breakages).

So my question is: Does git-stash really need 'cp -p'? Is it safe to remove?

             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-15 10:08 Jakob Pfender [this message]
2011-03-15 10:58 ` [RFD] git stash over OpenBSD/Linux NFS - cp -p breakage Johannes Sixt
2011-03-15 12:00   ` Jakob Pfender
2011-03-15 12:37     ` [PATCH] stash: copy the index using --index-output instead of cp -p Johannes Sixt
2011-03-15 19:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-15 19:53         ` Bert Wesarg
2011-03-16  8:12           ` Johannes Sixt
2011-03-16  8:14             ` [PATCH 1/2] stash: fix incorrect quoting in cleanup of temporary files Johannes Sixt
2011-03-16  8:18             ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] stash: copy the index using --index-output instead of cp -p Johannes Sixt

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