How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Jussi Piitulainen
<jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi> wrote:
> I was surprised that it didn't notice and report that things went wrong
> while it was creating the clone that it was unable to handle afterwards.
> It apparently created an inconsistent index and thought everything was
> fine at that point. Then failed to understand its own state.
>
> It could have noticed that it's about to create a file that is already
> there when it shouldn't be.

Interesting. I'm not sure how best to solve that, but at best, all
you'll get is a tidy error message - and "git status" should report on
the problem, one way or another.

ChrisA