Re: Possible race condition with git-rebase + .git/index.lock
On Wednesday, March 13 2019, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 04:48:36PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
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>> Huh, I do have some of the files opened in Emacs! They're in
>> background, but indeed, now that you mentioned I remember that Emacs
>> keeps track of changes and invokes "git status" sometimes. Next time I
>> see the bug, I'll try closing the files and see if it happens again.
>
> If Emacs (I guess maybe magit?) is running "git status" behind the
> scenes, you might benefit from teaching it to use "git
> --no-optional-locks status" instead. See the section "BACKGROUND
> REFRESH" in "git help status" for more discussion.
Thanks Jeff. That's going to be helpful.
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