Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Multiple simultaneously locked ref updates

On Thursday, August 29, 2013 08:11:48 am Brad King wrote:

   fatal: Unable to create '....lock': File exists.
   If no other git process is currently running, this
probably means a git process crashed in this repository
earlier. Make sure no other git process is running and
remove the file manually to continue.

I don't believe git currently tries to do any form of stale 
lock recovery since it is racy and unreliable (both single 
server or on a multi-server shared repo),


-Martin