From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:20:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory
Message-ID: <20101117112042.GX22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>
In-Reply-To: <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