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

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 3, 2019, 09:47 UTC
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Hi Duy,
On Fri, 3 May 2019, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> I have a feeling that most operations read the index unlocked,
> manipulate and only lock before writing things out. So yeah it's
> probably already racy.
IIRC there is a check for that, so it is not actually racy ;-)

Ciao, Johannes

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  7. Aleksey MidenkovMay 2, 2019
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  12. Johannes SchindelinMay 3, 2019
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