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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: paul@mad-scientist•net
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] git-new-workdir: Don't fail if the target directory is empty
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:16:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk32ho8mc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417041115.23650.69.camel@homebase> (Paul Smith's message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:31:55 -0500")

Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist•net> writes:

> This is what happens for a file:
>
> $ rm -f foo
>
> $ touch foo
>
> $ ./src/git/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir src/git foo master
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘foo’: Not a directory
> unable to create new workdir "foo"!

;-)  That comes from mkdir || fail which is indeed sufficient.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26 20:38 [PATCH v4] git-new-workdir: Don't fail if the target directory is empty Paul Smith
2014-11-26 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-26 22:31   ` Paul Smith
2014-11-26 23:16     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-11-28 18:34       ` Paul Smith
2014-12-10 17:16       ` Paul Smith

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