On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:43 PM Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 16:26, Gaël Lhez via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, the `.lock` file was still open and on Windows that means > > that it could not be deleted properly. This patch fixes that issue. > > Hmmm, doesn't the tempfile machinery remove the lock file when we die? On Windows this seems not to be the case. (Open files cannot be deleted as the open file is not kept by inode or similar but by the file path there?) Rewording your concern: Could the tempfile machinery be taught to work properly on Windows, e.g. by first closing all files and then deleting them afterwards? There was a refactoring of tempfiles merged in 89563ec379 (Merge branch 'jk/incore-lockfile-removal', 2017-09-19), which sounded promising at first, as it is dated after the original patch[1] date (June 2016), but it has no references for Windows being different, so we might still have the original issue; most of the lockfile infrastructure was done in 2015 via db86e61cbb (Merge branch 'mh/tempfile', 2015-08-25) [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/797
