From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 09:47:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: fatal: Unable to create '.../.git/index.lock': File exists.
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1905031146490.45@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D7bx46bix_LmGr=xcwsrA=LehXmLmnONLz2w3q6f80vw@mail.gmail.com>

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