Re: [git-users] git clone fails with unable to overwrite old ref-pack file

2012-08-08 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 18:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Lisa Zorn lisa.z...@sfcta.org wrote: (CC'ing the msysgit mailing list, I suspect the discussion does really belong there, so possibly please cull git-users from the CC list when replying.) I have been using git for years and have not run into this problem

[git-users] git clone fails with unable to overwrite old ref-pack file

2012-08-07 Thread Lisa Zorn
Hello, I have been using git for years and have not run into this problem before. I tried to git clone a repo that's on a local drive, and I get this error: dir1\dir2git clone -b master Y:\git_src Cloning into 'Muni_GenevaBRT_HuntersPtToCandlestickInterchangeOnly'... done. fatal: unable to

Re: [git-users] git clone fails with unable to overwrite old ref-pack file

2012-08-07 Thread Wes Freeman
Check your permissions on dir1, and make sure it's not set as read-only or something. Wes On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Lisa Zorn lisa.z...@sfcta.org wrote: Hello, I have been using git for years and have not run into this problem before. I tried to git clone a repo that's on a local

Re: [git-users] git clone fails with unable to overwrite old ref-pack file

2012-08-07 Thread Lisa Zorn
Thanks, I tried making sure I set things to not RO but I'll try more (windows permissions are confusing, I am never sure if I'm succeeding with things using the UI). The other thing is that before this, we git clone many other things into dir2 and they all work fine, but this one fails. And

Re: [git-users] git clone fails with unable to overwrite old ref-pack file

2012-08-07 Thread Wes Freeman
I agree, windows permissions are annoying. Actually it might be a permission within the git_src folder getting copied down. Have you looked at that? Wes On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Lisa Zorn lisa.z...@sfcta.org wrote: Thanks, I tried making sure I set things to not RO but I'll try more