From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:07:39 GMT Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20101118155211.GE22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > 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'). You may be interested in 72ec8ba (Support working directory located at root - 2010-02-14). t1509 reports the breakages. Unfortunately this kind of tests can't be run automatically -- Duy