From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:24:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git config error message
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711122224190.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071112222317.GF2918@steel.home>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> Jon Smirl, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 16:35:07 +0100:
> > I'm not in a git repo, this error message is misleading.
> > 
> > jonsmirl@terra:~/foo$ git config remote.origin.url
> > http://git.digispeaker.com/projects/digispeaker-kernel.git
> > could not lock config file
> > 
> 
> Cygwin or any crashes in this repo lately?
> If cygwin, than we probably have a file handle leak in config code.

He said that he's not in a git repo.  Thus, .git/config does not exist, 
and is not lockable, since not even .git/ exists.

Ciao,
Dscho