Windows binary saga

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:01:54PM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:31:37PM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Sep 25, 2015, at 10:23, Salvador Cuñat <salvador.cunat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Good evening.
> > > 
> > > I can also confirm Sander's issues in Win10 with 4.4.97-74.
> > > 
> > > - git clones remote repo fine
> > > - changes are also saved in local repo
> > > - local and remote are never synchronized
> > 
> > I can reproduce this and have started debugging it. No clear idea what's going on. Right now I'm getting confusing errors that show up only when testing on Windows. 
> 
> OK, here are the two errors that I can see but that I don't quite know how
> to fix, yet.
> 
> a) when we set the proxy variable to "" in order to disable the proxy,
> that works fine on Linux and Mac but causes us to get an "The parameter is
> incorrect" error on Windows. So I need to somehow remove that parameter or
> something. I'm working on that.
> In a weird twist on the past, if you have set a proxy (which I had for all
> my tests in the past because the machine on which I run these tests in a
> VM is usually on  my corporate network either because I'm in the office or
> on a VPN), then things work - which is why I was never able to reproduce
> this.

OK, this one I have figured out. Need to clean up my fix and push but this
is coming.

> b) on Windows 10 the renaming of local git cache directory fails. I tried
> both QFile::rename and QDir::rename. Both fail. I'll try to figure out why
> but this is also an issue that needs to be addressed.

Still no idea. Lubomir?

/D