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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@sergiodj.net>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible race condition with git-rebase + .git/index.lock
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:50:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cS_NLgwr6F2OqMpMZ3GBO-Cyru3G3UBxiT4ULJ_V1Bqvg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1h55bx0.fsf@sergiodj.net>

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).

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-11 22:50 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 [this message]
2019-03-11 22:53   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
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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