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Re: [PATCH] More friendly message when locking the index fails.

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 19, 2009, 14:12 UTC
Message-ID
<bd6139dc0902190612u7819bda9s50638ed46df5cb64@mail.gmail.com>
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<1235048058-6181-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Heya,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 13:54, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> Just saying that index.lock exists doesn't tell the user _what_ to do
> to fix the problem. We should give an indication that it's normally
> safe to delete index.lock after making sure git isn't running here.

Surely we need a 'git cleanup' which will attempt to clean up such mess, fail miserably most of the time and might even corrupt your repository further! Oh wait, wrong VCS...

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
Previous: Matthieu Moy
Message 9 of 9 in “Recovering the index after a git crash?”
  1. Matthieu MoyFeb 4, 2009
  2. More friendly message when locking the index fails.Matthieu Moy, Feb 4, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierFeb 4, 2009
  4. Mikael MagnussonFeb 6, 2009
  5. More friendly message when locking the index fails.Matthieu Moy, Feb 6, 2009
  6. More friendly message when locking the index fails.Matthieu Moy, Feb 6, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2009
  8. More friendly message when locking the index fails.Matthieu Moy, Feb 19, 2009
  9. Sverre RabbelierFeb 19, 2009

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