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Bug: fatal: Unable to create '.../.git/index.lock': File exists.

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AMAleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 29, 2019, 11:02 UTC
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Reproduce: ``` cat << EOF >> /tmp/check.sh #!/bin/sh git log HEAD~..HEAD | cat # sleep 1 EOF chmod +x /tmp/check.sh git rebase -p -x /tmp/check.sh base ``` If the `base` is far away enough it fails with "fatal: Unable to create '.../.git/index.lock': File exists." at an arbitrary commit.

Abort current rebase, uncomment 'sleep 1' and repeat rebase. Now it doesn't fail.

Version: git version 2.20.1

uname --all Linux lian 4.18.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 10:56:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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All the best,

Aleksey Midenkov
@midenok
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