Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory

From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Nov 18, 2010, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20101118155211.GE22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20101117112042.GX22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>

Hi all,

> 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).

Coming back to the testing machine I was using this on, I see this problem as well now. I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before, which would mean it was introduced by a recent upgrade.

Checking the logs shows that I was running 1.7.1 before, and now 1.7.2.3 is broken. Downgrading to 1.7.1 indeed removes the problem.

I've rummaged around in the source a bit, haven't found the cause yet (and I'm out of time now).

The issue also still occurs with a fairly recent git master (ca209065f: completion: fix zsh check under bash with 'set -u').

Gr.

Matthijs