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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:44:07 +0200
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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.

Just as I thought the situation improved (by closing index.lock and
unmapping index),
it suddenly get worse: now I'm stuck on git-pull.

git-merge-index (called at some point by git-pull) maps the index in, and starts
git-merge-one-file for each (or the given) entry in the index.
git-merge-one-file
calls git-update-index, which wants to update the index. Which doesn't work,
because it's locked by that piece of s$%^.

The only working walkaround for me atm is unlinking indexfile before rename in
commit_index_file :(