X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B0A0EDC.1040604@byu.net> References: <4B0A0EDC.1040604@byu.net> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:14:48 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [1.7] git checkout or clean fails to unlink submodule From: David Antliff To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 17:26, Eric Blake wrote: > According to David Antliff on 11/22/2009 9:20 PM: >> Any suggestions how to investigate this further? Is there some way >> that Windows or Cygwin is somehow preventing the deletion of this >> directory? > > More likely, this is due to the fact that git submodule is still an > interface in progress, and this is likely to be an upstream limitation. > I'd see if you can reproduce it on Linux, and if so, report it upstream. > Which reminds me, I need to package a newer version of git soon. Ok, I'll see if I can reproduce in Linux in the next day or two. I would be happy to test (as in, use day to day) a newer version of git on Cygwin if you do package a new one for 1.7 :) -- David. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple