From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:50:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory
Message-ID: <20101124085030.GB22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim_sPyVGK3XWEVseseRzcmNM-YS=aFSWZeBiB7n@mail.gmail.com>

Hi folks,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:45:43PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ilyas -- <umask00@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a
> > server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file
> > or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux.
> > Please fix this problem in upstream.
> 
> I also have another patch to fix this [1]. Hopefully Junio will pick it up soon.
The patch sent by Ilyas is mine and it was just a quick hack. Please use
the patch sent later by Nguyen instead, it solves the problem properly:

> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/161825