Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hmm. We care to _some_ degree, since that's the condition we set up for > making sure that update-ref cannot take the lock. But it would probably > be fine to just confirm that we failed to take the lock. And there, > checking for just "Unable to create $Q.*packed-refs.lock" would be > sufficient. Yeah, that was what I was getting at. On top, we could also see "test -e" after noticing the failure but that probably does not help us prove anything.