From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:00:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory
Message-ID: <AANLkTikbb-PaZoWG4yCtpmMnU-PQiO0wtaXGT+KReOto@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101118155211.GE22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> 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).

Alternatively, you could try to bisect, with "git bisect", between
these two commits, 1.7.2.3=bad and 1.7.1=good. It is roughly 10 steps.

HTH,
Santi