On 10/6/05, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> (a bit too intrusive). The patch fixes only update-index.c (the one I had
> problems with), there probably are other places were the situation is alike.

of course there are "other places". Please, try the attached patch instead.

For the record: the patch is supposed to help people with
"Unable to write new cachefile" kind of errors.