Re: git .lock file error

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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you running some anti-virus, or from a Dropbox-folder (or
> something similar)? If so, these applications tend to open files for a
> short while and then release the file handle. This can some times
> cause race conditions with other software, like Git.
>
> I haven't looked into this particular code-path for what kind of
> hazards might be, but this sounds very much like one such case to me.
>

Any of these things are possible. As much as I'd like to find the root
cause of this problem, isn't making Git more robust a good thing in
general? Finding every program that could conflict with Git and
disabling/uninstalling it isn't really a good long term solution, I
think.
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