# Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory 4 messages from 2010-11-24 to 2010-11-24. Participants: Ilyas --, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, Matthijs Kooijman. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25830 ## Ilyas --, 2010-11-24 08:01 Subject: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikfg9fLtqC6V3hQkiSZ%2BRfWqViJsHPxrt6ycoRR%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi! The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux. Please fix this problem in upstream. Thank you. diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c index d1e5e5e..5408db9 100644 --- a/dir.c +++ b/dir.c @@ -943,6 +943,7 @@ int file_exists(const char *f) char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir) { char *cwd = buffer; + size_t len, root_len; if (!dir) return NULL; @@ -952,6 +953,15 @@ char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir) if (!is_absolute_path(dir)) dir = make_absolute_path(dir); + len = strlen(dir); + root_len = offset_1st_component(dir); + + if (root_len >= len) { + /* dir is the filesystem root, so the cwd is always inside */ + root_len = offset_1st_component(cwd); + return cwd + root_len; + } + while (*dir && *dir == *cwd) { dir++; cwd++; ``` ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2010-11-24 08:45 Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTim_sPyVGK3XWEVseseRzcmNM-YS%3DaFSWZeBiB7n%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ilyas -- wrote: > Hi! > > The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a > server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file > or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux. > Please fix this problem in upstream. I also have another patch to fix this [1]. Hopefully Junio will pick it up soon. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/161825 -- Duy ``` ## Matthijs Kooijman, 2010-11-24 08:50 Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory Message-ID: <20101124085030.GB22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101124085030.GB22067%40login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl In-Reply-To: ``` Hi folks, On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:45:43PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ilyas -- wrote: > > The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a > > server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file > > or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux. > > Please fix this problem in upstream. > > I also have another patch to fix this [1]. Hopefully Junio will pick it up soon. The patch sent by Ilyas is mine and it was just a quick hack. Please use the patch sent later by Nguyen instead, it solves the problem properly: > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/161825 ``` ## Ilyas --, 2010-11-24 09:46 Subject: Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinpwM%3D3P0Zz-t_j1sh%3D7s8h6mh-oiymuxdU9HL_%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20101124085030.GB22067@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl> ``` Yes, patch which I sent provided by Matthijs Kooijman in other thread (with the same subject). We use git on many servers for track configs and when we get troubles with /.git we was really stressed. I hope that this issue will be fixed in upstream soon. Thank you. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:50 AM, wrote: > Hi folks, > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:45:43PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ilyas -- wrote: >> > The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a >> > server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file >> > or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux. >> > Please fix this problem in upstream. >> >> I also have another patch to fix this [1]. Hopefully Junio will pick it up soon. > The patch sent by Ilyas is mine and it was just a quick hack. Please use > the patch sent later by Nguyen instead, it solves the problem properly: > >> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/161825 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzs0dYACgkQz0nQ5oovr7xKwQCgqd/l6cuub7zXlnbepYCDRwEW > i88AniNyZFrWeYS5gNlKJfEnENo6ml2p > =uRWs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ```