Push to repository: "Operation not permitted"

[James Westby]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 00:25 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> That gives a pretty big clue: This repository is on a FAT16
> filesystem, and I'm asking it to update a working tree containing
> symlinks.
> 
> Should I expect that to work?
> 

It's not clear what behaviour would be right here. You are asking
for symlinks on a filesystem that doesn't support them.

> If it is to fail, I would at least expect a more sensible error
> message, indicating what operation is failing, and exactly which file
> in the working tree is being updated at the point of the failure.
> 

I can't find a bug report about this proplem, so could you please
file one requesting a better error message in this situation?

Thanks,

James