Just so I never foget… observe the following test cases -

$foo = 8.37*40*0.175*100; echo $foo.' == '.(int)$foo;
> 5859 == 5858

$foo = 8.37*40*0.175*100; echo $foo.' == '.round($foo);
> 5859 == 5859

I believe that casing to INT will round towards zero as documented in the php docs, I also believe the 5858 number above is because the floating point number is always fractional…

another interesting one -

$foo = 8.37*40*0.175*100; echo $foo.' == '.(int)(string)$foo;
> 5859 == 5859

By casting to string first the floating point element is removed….

Looking for a quick way to use a "text" object to store a log – do it in one query using the following … 

UPDATE [TABLE] SET [TXT_COL] = CONCAT(IF([TXT_COL] IS NULL, "", [TXT_COL]), "[DATA]") WHERE ....

If you get something along the lines of -

fatal: unable to rename temporary pack file: Permission denied
Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
error: failed to run repack
Pushing to ….

When making a push you may have a courrupt pack file within your git repo…

Using the shell you can rebuild the "pack" files by running -

git repack -a -f

Ok – so this didnt fix the problem….

Running git push from the command line gives much more detail than "Git Gui"…

will update this post when we get to the bottom of it…

Ok – problem is with 64bit version of Msysgit – the current beta is broken (1.7.0.2),  We have reverted to Git-1.6.5.1 which doesn't exhibit the problem!