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

From: Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 30, 2019, 11:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CAF8BazBShg9F2uCuVQ_PM6196kOUNWOA1T9APkCXCoey7as2mQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DSW2f3v1KpU-QrAz-EeLwG4mVm9ToDdA2=kXSmtsEAYw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:35 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 6:03 PM Aleksey Midenkov <midenok@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I gave it about 2000 commits (from v2.20.1 to master on git.git) to
> rebase. No luck.

Please, try on this repo: git@github.com:tempesta-tech/mariadb

``` git checkout 62a082f573 git rebase -p -x /tmp/check.sh ca7fbcea6c4 ```

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:10 AM Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote: ...

>
> Does it work if you pass `-r` instead of `-p`? The latter will be
> deprecated in favor of the former in the upcoming Git v2.22.

It also fails with `-r` but less frequently.

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All the best,

Aleksey Midenkov
@midenok