Re: [PATCH] Clarify the "cannot lock existing info/refs" error

From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Mar 4, 2009, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20090304192853.GA10567@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <1236181026-15385-1-git-send-email-johnflux@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:37:06PM +0000, John Tapsell wrote:

> -fprintf(stderr, "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs\n");
> +error("cannot lock existing info/refs on remote server\nPerhaps the
> server is currently busy, or your ~/.netrc file is not configured
> correctly.");

In my experience this is usually caused by http-push crashing and leaving stale locks behind until it times out after 10 minutes. I don't think we should speculate here unless we can narrow down the error condition.