Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory

From: Ilyas -- <umask00@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 24, 2010, 09:46 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinpwM=3P0Zz-t_j1sh=7s8h6mh-oiymuxdU9HL_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101124085030.GB22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>

Yes, patch which I sent provided by Matthijs Kooijman in other thread (with the same subject).

We use git on many servers for track configs and when we get troubles with /.git we was really stressed.

I hope that this issue will be fixed in upstream soon.

Thank you.

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:50 AM,  <matthijs@stdin.nl> wrote:

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> Hi folks,
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:45:43PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ilyas -- <umask00@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a
>> > server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file
>> > or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux.
>> > Please fix this problem in upstream.
>>
>> I also have another patch to fix this [1]. Hopefully Junio will pick it up soon.
> The patch sent by Ilyas is mine and it was just a quick hack. Please use
> the patch sent later by Nguyen instead, it solves the problem properly:
>
>> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/161825
>
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