Subject: Re: v2.46.0-rc0 test failures on cygwin

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:48:50 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 08:45:48PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
>
>>   error: could not link file '.git/ref_migration.sr9pEF/reftable' to '.git/reftable': Permission denied
>>   migrated refs can be found at '.git/ref_migration.sr9pEF'
>> [...]
>> Now try to finish the migration by hand:
>> 
>>   $ mv .git/ref_migration.sr9pEF/reftable .git/reftable
>> 
>> Hmm, note no error; of course, the mv command may well do much more than
>> the rename() library function, so they are not necessarily equivalent.
>
> This is a shot in the dark, but: could the problem be an open file that
> cannot be moved? If I run a "ref migrate" on my Linux system in the
> debugger and stop at move_files(), checking /proc/<pid>/fd shows an open
> descriptor for .git/ref_migration.WnJ8TS/reftable/tables.list.

Hmph, I wonder ifthat means the same test should be failing on
Windows, too?