From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:12:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] More friendly message when locking the index fails. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1235048058-6181-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Heya, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 13:54, Matthieu Moy 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