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Windows with_rw-directory TC helper fails to delete repos #32
On Windows, os.rmtree cannot not remove directories with read-only files; such are the git db directories.
The fix is something like this:
...
finally:
# Need to collect here to be sure all handles have been closed. It appears# a windows-only issue. In fact things should be deleted, as well as# memory maps closed, once objects go out of scope. For some reason# though this is not the case here unless we collect explicitly.ifnotkeep:
gc.collect()
# From http://stackoverflow.com/a/4829285/548792defon_rm_error(func, path, exc_info):
importstatos.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE)
func(path)
shutil.rmtree(path, onerror=on_rm_error)
I assume that this one could be fixed in conjunction with this PR ?
In any case, thanks for reporting, it's good to keep track of the issue and a possible solution.
On Windows,
os.rmtreecannot not remove directories with read-only files; such are the git db directories.The fix is something like this:
... finally: # Need to collect here to be sure all handles have been closed. It appears # a windows-only issue. In fact things should be deleted, as well as # memory maps closed, once objects go out of scope. For some reason # though this is not the case here unless we collect explicitly. if not keep: gc.collect() # From http://stackoverflow.com/a/4829285/548792 def on_rm_error(func, path, exc_info): import stat os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE) func(path) shutil.rmtree(path, onerror=on_rm_error)