From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@sergiodj.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible race condition with git-rebase + .git/index.lock
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:53:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm2h58fy.fsf@sergiodj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cS_NLgwr6F2OqMpMZ3GBO-Cyru3G3UBxiT4ULJ_V1Bqvg@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:50:20 -0400")
On Monday, March 11 2019, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 6:17 PM Sergio Durigan Junior
> <sergiodj@sergiodj.net> wrote:
>> # git rebase origin/master
>> ...
>> Applying: commitX
>> Applying: commitY
>> Applying: commitZ
>> fatal: Unable to create '/home/xyz/dir1/dir2/.git/index.lock': File exists.
>>
>> The first thing I did was to check whether the index.lock file existed,
>> but it doesn't.
>
> What platform is this on? If Windows, I'm wondering if something (such
> as a virus scanner) is holding the lock file open long enough to
> prevent Git from actually deleting it (and perhaps Git doesn't notice
> the failed deletion -- until the next time it tries to take the lock).
This is on GNU/Linux (Fedora 28, to be specific). I haven't had the
chance to test this on other distros, unfortunately. And since it seems
to be a race condition, it's kind of hard to perform tests that trigger
this.
Thanks,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-11 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-11 21:38 Possible race condition with git-rebase + .git/index.lock Sergio Durigan Junior
2019-03-11 22:50 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-03-11 22:53 ` Sergio Durigan Junior [this message]
2019-03-12 10:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-12 16:45 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2019-03-12 19:23 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-12 19:32 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2019-03-12 19:39 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-12 19:58 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2019-03-13 20:40 ` Phillip Wood
2019-03-13 20:48 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2019-03-13 20:59 ` Jeff King
2019-03-13 21:07 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2022-10-28 16:04 ` Possible race condition with git-rebase + .git/index.lock - probably a gettext issue Mingun
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