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From: Nicolas Bock <nbock@lanl.gov>
Subject: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:53:47 -0600
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Hello list,

when running "git gc" I get the following error message as of late:

$ git gc
error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
error: failed to run reflog

When I rsync the directory tree to another machine, I can run "git gc"
without any error messages. What exactly does this error mean? Why would
locking fail?

Thanks already,

nick