From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:50:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify the "cannot lock existing info/refs" error
Message-ID: <20090305085052.GA24669@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903050000g4466ab2fne5fb8ed009808346@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:00:37AM +0000, John Tapsell wrote:
> On google I found that people had been getting that error if they have
> the wrong password.

That's easy enough to verify. Using the wrong username/password I get

	error: Cannot access URL $url, return code 22
	error: failed to push some refs to '$url'

which is not very helpful, but otherwise unrelated.

> -fprintf(stderr, "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs\n");
> +error("cannot lock existing info/refs on remote server\n");

That's a less ambiguous but equally unhelpful error message.