From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:32:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Multiple simultaneously locked ref updates
Message-ID: <201308290932.18199.mfick@codeaurora.org>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1377784597.git.brad.king@kitware.com>

On Thursday, August 29, 2013 08:11:48 am Brad King wrote:
> 
>    fatal: Unable to create '....lock': File exists.
>    If no other git process is currently running, this
> probably means a git process crashed in this repository
> earlier. Make sure no other git process is running and
> remove the file manually to continue.

I don't believe git currently tries to do any form of stale 
lock recovery since it is racy and unreliable (both single 
server or on a multi-server shared repo),


-Martin