git .lock file error

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to switch to git, so I apologize in advance for my ignorance. For this, I'm using cygwin git, version 1.7.1 to talk to a svn server running 1.4.2.

When I 'git svn clone' or 'git svn clone; git svn fetch', I sometimes run into the following error.

And when I 'git svn rebase'

Sometimes the line number is different (578, I think?), but when I retry the fetch command, it rebuilds the file corresponding to the lockfile, and then continues a little farther before dying again.

When I watch the directory in question, I see the lock file appear, and then disappearing a short time after the script gives up.

I don't have a series of steps to reproduce the problem, sometimes it goes for an hour, and sometimes for just a few minutes/seconds.

I do have TortoiseGit running my machine, but this issue happens even when TGitCache.exe is not running. If some other instance of git is accessing the repository, I don't know which or how.

Thanks, -Nate