unlink errors under windows in git pack-refs
From: Christian Reich <hidden>
Date: 2025-01-22 19:09:12
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) I have a git repository cloned which uses reftables. git clone --ref-format=reftable https://github.com/eclipse-jgit/jgit.git A jgit-program (java) is running and sleeping for 100seconds to demonstrate the problem. Git git = Git.init().setDirectory(new File("c:\\temp\\jgit")).call(); FileRepository repo = (FileRepository) git.getRepository(); try { Thread.sleep(100000); } catch (InterruptedException e) { } git.close(); While the jgit-program is sleeping in git-bash update a ref und pack the reftablefiles: git update-ref refs/tags/test 939d321faccd12bff4cb13ce6358820297fbc78e git pack-refs What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) git pack-refs should work without messages. What happened instead? (Actual behavior) git tries to unlink the reftable-files, but jgit hold windows-system lock, so the file can't be unlinked. An answers 'n' for retry causes more asks. After the third try git give up. Unlink of file 'C:/temp/jgittest/jgit/.git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000004-50486d0e.ref' failed. Should I try again? (y/n) n Unlink of file 'C:/temp/jgittest/jgit/.git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000004-50486d0e.ref' failed. Should I try again? (y/n) n Unlink of file 'C:/temp/jgittest/jgit/.git/reftable/0x000000000002-0x000000000004-50486d0e.ref' failed. Should I try again? (y/n) n What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? I would expect, that git tries to unlink the files. But if this fails git should ignore this and try to delete the files next time on pack-files. Its documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/reftable Anything else you want to add: Please review the rest of the bug report below. You can delete any lines you don't wish to share. [System Info] git version: git version 2.48.0.rc2.windows.1 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: 049f0cf1a5d000f1e24f0e80b79b0d043a8b83b2 sizeof-long: 4 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon libcurl: 8.11.1 OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.2.3 3 Sep 2024 zlib: 1.3.1 uname: Windows 10.0 22631 compiler info: gnuc: 14.2 libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe [Enabled Hooks] commit-msg