Re: Regular Rebase Failure

Nope, this is local on an OSX system with only one user, no local
network. This happens about every third interactive rebase.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Phil Hord [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Adam Steel [off-list ref] wrote:

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Stefan,

So I switched git versions.

$ git --version
git version 2.3.1

I'm still getting the same regular rebase failures.

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fatal: Unable to create
'/Users/asteel/Repositories/rails-teespring/.git/index.lock': File
exists.

Is the repository located on a mounted network share, or could other
users be accessing it via a network mount?  We had a similar problem
recently on a new Jenkins VM instance which had only NFS-mounted
storage available. I don't remember if it was Git that was failing on
there, and I wasn't directly involved in solving the problem.  But
while researching the issue I found ominous warnings about the dangers
of file-locking on remote shares [1]. Which is to say, I don't know
much, but I heard a rumor...  :-)

Perhaps this is old news and already well covered in Git.  But I am curious...


[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html