[Info-vax] VGIT for VMS x86-64 - failed to make .git directory

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-05-10 00:40, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 09/05/2023 23:37, Dave Froble wrote:

>> One needs to be a bit competent to do things, though, obscure messages 
>> are never acceptable.
>>
>>> Compatibility is a harsh default, particularly when the costs of 
>>> compatibility
>>> are shifted to new work and not onto under- or unmaintained apps. 
>>> Trade-offs
>>> between short term and long term are never fun choices.
>>>
>>
>> Quite so.
>>
> 
> I haven't checked on VMS 9.2-1 but the defaults for initialising a disk 
> have been unusable for a very long time

Defaults for initializing a disk aren't even that usable on RSX... :-)
You always want to override some of them.

   Johnny