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Re: git config error message

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 12, 2007, 22:23 UTC
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<20071112222317.GF2918@steel.home>
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Jon Smirl, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 16:35:07 +0100:
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> I'm not in a git repo, this error message is misleading.
> 
> jonsmirl@terra:~/foo$ git config remote.origin.url
> http://git.digispeaker.com/projects/digispeaker-kernel.git
> could not lock config file
>

Cygwin or any crashes in this repo lately? If cygwin, than we probably have a file handle leak in config code.

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