X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45FBF11E.8020702@byu.net> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:46:06 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefano Spinucci CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [BUG] Git v1.5.0.3: fatal: Unable to write new index file References: <906f26060703170624m1ab396f4p31f592c1f02c7842@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <906f26060703170624m1ab396f4p31f592c1f02c7842@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No need to cc me; I read the list. According to Stefano Spinucci on 3/17/2007 7:24 AM: > Then, I hope the cygwin Git binary 'll be compiled with NO_MMAP; > otherwise, needing to work on a FAT32 fs, I'll have to recompile Git > manually. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-03/msg00005.html "However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file permissions very accurately." I highly recommend that you upgrade to NTFS. FAT32 is not secure. If you insist on using FAT, then you are correct - you must recompile git yourself. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin git maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+/Ed84KuGfSFAYARAqVIAKC0U7QnifQPQJBT1dG6UgHrMuPV5QCgtX5z ee3TqO/DxrT3QZ5gsvxC6P8= =izL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/