Re: ISSUE - Sequential execution failure - Lock auto created between git commands

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: May 26, 2025, 13:23 UTC
Message-ID: <aDRrO4x0o0Hit6au@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <CAJR-fbZ4X1+gN75m2dUvocR6NkowLOZ9F26cjBy8w1qd181OoQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 05:13:30PM +0300, Yonatan Roth wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> 
> Using a script we run the following set of git commands:
> 
> git branch -a
> 
> git remote -v
> 
> git stash push --all --include-untracked
> 
> git checkout test_git_ver
> 
> git remote -v
> 
> git fetch
> 
> git status --branch --porcelain=v1 -u
> 
> git checkout test_git_ver_workspace
> 
> 
> 
> 
> After upgrading the git version to - *2.47.2*, we started getting the
> following error:
> 
> error: cannot lock ref 'HEAD': Unable to create '.../.git/*HEAD.lock*':
> File exists.

This sounds similar to the issue reported in [1], please see my reply there. I'll send a patch series the over the next days to address the issue.

Patrick

[1]: <CANi7bVAkNc+gY1NoXfJuDRjxjZLTgL8Lfn8_ZmWsvLAoiLPkNg@mail.gmail.com>