From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git rebase -i failing on cygwin -- git checkout-index says File Exists Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:23:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <4285cd450901201209i792195dfmdec1fb14d627b25e@mail.gmail.com> <4285cd450901201420l8929dci25688dc9723c917a@mail.gmail.com> <4285cd450901201444g711626afm296bf372a100b999@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ludvig Strigeus X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 21 00:25:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LPPxk-0001Fm-P3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:24:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762288AbZATXXH (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756581AbZATXXG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:06 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:33137 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755521AbZATXXE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:04 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2009 23:23:01 -0000 Received: from pD9EB302D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO noname) [217.235.48.45] by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 21 Jan 2009 00:23:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/hK8gWeDbhV6QG/DThBiRRK+RrEBZjq8wa3Y9IYt UrDmT2v4oSE43V X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <4285cd450901201444g711626afm296bf372a100b999@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Ludvig Strigeus wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ludvig Strigeus wrote: > > > > Maybe this command log is useful. I got this while aborting the > > rebase. Looks like some file creation race condition? Windows doesn't > > allow files to be deleted while they're open. > > I believe I found the source of my problems with git rebase. I had an > editor open that wanted to reload the files when changed, and this > seemed to conflict with git's file manipulations. After closing the > editor, I don't get the mysterious errors anymore. Yep, that's a Windows issue. Once you keep a file open in an editor, it cannot be overwritten/deleted. Live with it, or upgrade to a real operating system :-) Ciao, Dscho