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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnout Engelen <arnouten@bzzt.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log which temporary file could not be created
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:56:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8w24oygk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20101010180909.GA12320@burratino

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Arnout Engelen wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:41:24PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>>> 	fatal: Unable to create temporary file '.merge_file_Sc7R5c': File exists
>>> 	fatal: Unable to create temporary file 'newrepo/.git/tOWHcxk': No space left on device
>>
>> Perhaps we should also log the current working directory when the temporary 
>> filename is relative?
>
> Let's step back for a moment.  Was there an example that prompted
> this patch?  Were you aware of where git would be trying to create
> files in that example?  (I'm genuinely curious.)
>
> Converting the filename to an absolute path with make_absolute_path
> might be useful, but I am not entirely sure it is worth the
> complication.

For that matter, I am not sure if it is worth the strdup "just in case it
fails" either.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-09 20:17 [PATCH] log which temporary file could not be created Arnout Engelen
2010-10-10  2:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-10 10:33   ` Arnout Engelen
2010-10-10 18:09     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-10 18:56       ` Arnout Engelen
2010-10-12 20:19         ` [PATCH] send-pack: avoid redundant "pack-objects died with strange error" Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-16  6:04           ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-16  9:25             ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-16 17:09               ` [PATCH v3] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-12  3:56       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-10-18  9:20         ` [PATCH] log which temporary file could not be created Arnout Engelen
     [not found]           ` <20101021205800.GC12685@burratino>
2010-11-04  0:24             ` Arnout Engelen

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