Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory
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Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
- Date
- Nov 17, 2010, 11:20 UTC
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- <AANLkTi=UPWTeZP9uF+FGtsSs7wH3AmwdeLtsPJQnKvez@mail.gmail.com>
Hey,
> su > cd / > git init
I've been using git for exactly this purpose succesfully for a while now (git 1.5.6.5 from Debian stable and I think also 1.7.2.3 from Debian testing). The only problem I've found was that, with the former version, a lot of operations need to happen while the current dir is /, otherwise it wouldn't find the git repository properly (or do other weird stuff). This problem was gone in the latter version.
> fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory
This sounds like git assumes /etc/.git exists, but it really doesn't. Not sure why that happens.
Gr.
Matthijs