OK, so this is definitely a win32 issue. I believe that the perl script is simply creating .lock files too fast for Windows to keep up. Simply trying again fixes the problem for me. --- a/git-svn.perl +++ b/git-svn.perl @@ -3676,8 +3676,10 @@ sub rev_map_set { "$db => $db_lock ($!)\n"; } - sysopen(my $fh, $db_lock, O_RDWR | O_CREAT) - or croak "Couldn't open $db_lock: $!\n"; + my $fh; + my $tries=10; + for(; !sysopen($fh, $db_lock, O_RDWR | O_CREAT) && $tries>=0; $tries--) { } + if($tries <= 0) { croak "Couldn't open $db_lock: $!\n"; } $update_ref eq 'reset' ? _rev_map_reset($fh, $rev, $commit) : _rev_map_set($fh, $rev, $commit); if ($sync) { If this is a reasonable solution, I can go figure out how to properly format a patch to the list. -Nate On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello again, > > I realized I have git-cheetah running as well, so I killed > explorer.exe (the only process using git_shell_ext.exe), and tried > again. That's when I noticed that running 'git svn fetch' spawned two > git processes and a perl process (which later spawned another perl). > Is this something that should be happening? > > Thanks, > -Nate > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Nate Parsons <parsons.nate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm trying to switch to git, so I apologize in advance for my > > ignorance. For this, I'm using cygwin git, version 1.7.1 to talk to a > > svn server running 1.4.2. > > > > When I 'git svn clone' or 'git svn clone; git svn fetch', I sometimes > > run into the following error. > > > Couldn't open .git/svn/refs/remotes/0.0.0/.rev_map.b8cad480-e46b-48b4-8317-a683ee46c2bd.lock: Device or resource busy > > > at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 5210 > > > > And when I 'git svn rebase' > > > Couldn't open .git/svn/refs/remotes/git-svn/.rev_map.cc05479a-e8ea-436f-8d71-e07493b7796c.lock: Device or resource busy > > > at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 1528 > > > > Sometimes the line number is different (578, I think?), but when I > > retry the fetch command, it rebuilds the file corresponding to the > > lockfile, and then continues a little farther before dying again. > > > > When I watch the directory in question, I see the lock file appear, > > and then disappearing a short time after the script gives up. > > > > I don't have a series of steps to reproduce the problem, sometimes it > > goes for an hour, and sometimes for just a few minutes/seconds. > > > > I do have TortoiseGit running my machine, but this issue happens even > > when TGitCache.exe is not running. If some other instance of git is > > accessing the repository, I don't know which or how. > > > > Thanks, > > -Nate -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html