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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_file: avoid bogus "file exists" error message
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:41:18 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Note that in both occasions that I've seen this failure, it has not been
> > due to a missing directory, or bad permissions
> 
> Actually, it was due to bad permissions. :-) Once git was fixed to
> actually say that, I figured out where to look to fix them.

This is strange since write_loose_object() which calls create_tmpfile()
checks for EPERM.  Perhaps this should be done in create_tmpfile()?