Re: windows: error cannot lock ref ... unable to create lock

From: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>
Date: Jun 18, 2019, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+dzEBniPBM9qyR9gq=8sKtc8ieUkq6HGfUuZSc5=UdovR5wkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+dzEB=iOsfuZQ5Z8uXO+k6E3WczkLX64yWUpTm1NZBjdd47kg@mail.gmail.com>

hit send too quickly, here's my version information:

$ git --version git version 2.22.0.windows.1

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:38 AM Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu> wrote:

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>
> I've set up a demo problematic repository on github:
> https://github.com/asottile-archive/git-windows-branch-test
>
> The minimal reproduction is:
>
> rm -rf x
> git init x
> cd x
> git remote add origin https://github.com/asottile-archive/git-windows-branch-te>
> git fetch origin --tags
>
> Here's the output:
>
> + git init x
> Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/IEUser/x/x/.git/
> + cd x
> + git remote add origin
> https://github.com/asottile-archive/git-windows-branch-test
> + git fetch origin --tags
> remote: Enumerating objects: 10, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (10/10), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
> remote: Total 10 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
> Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
> From https://github.com/asottile-archive/git-windows-branch-test
>  * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/pr/aux': Unable to create
> 'C:/Users/IEUser/x/x/.git/refs/remotes/origin/pr/aux.lock': No such
> file or directory
>  ! [new branch]      pr/aux     -> origin/pr/aux  (unable to update local ref)
>
>
> real-world issue: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit/issues/1058
>
> Thanks
>
> Anthony