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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem adding a symlinkg
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:01:59 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:17, Arnaud Bailly <abailly@oqube.com> wrote:
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> I am trying to add some symlink to git and got the following error:
>
> error: readlink("protoc/Linux-x86-2.6.28/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so"): Invalid argument

Is the file in fact a symlink? Maybe it was replaced by a file while
Git was adding it?
If it is reproducable, could you strace "git add" and post the trace here?