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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32
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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:48:17 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> >> Neat, with the custom stat() changes cherry-picked on top of
> >> 4msysgit.git 'devel' branch, I only have one failing testcase 
> >> t6024-recursive-merge.sh when running $ NO_SYMLINKS=1 make -k
> >> 
> >> The rest are passing with flying colors!
> > 
> > Bad news.  I do not know if it was the newest version I tried, but I
> > could no longer fetch... said something about some bad file.
> 
> Then you're missing this patch:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw/4msysgit.git?a=commitdiff;h=f15974add93bdfa92775c77c00e7c65aefd42127
> 
> I guess the quickest way is to manually apply this patch and recompile.
> (or add the '#undef fstat', and have git_fstat just 'return fstat(fd, buf)')
> 
> The problem is that without this patch fstat(0, buf) would fail with bad
> filedescriptor instead of returning the st_mode = S_IFIFO.

I guessed as much, but could not fetch the patch, since fetch was broken 
;-)

For some utterly strange reason, "git fetch" accessed "git-fetch" in the 
cwd, not in /bin/...  Funny.

Ciao,
Dscho