On Tuesday, March 12 2019, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:18 AM Sergio Durigan Junior > <sergiodj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This works without problems most of the time (well, usually there are >> conflicts and all, but that's a burden I have to carry). However, >> sometimes I notice that git fails with: >> >> # git rebase origin/master >> ... >> Applying: commitX >> Applying: commitY >> Applying: commitZ >> fatal: Unable to create '/home/xyz/dir1/dir2/.git/index.lock': File exists. >> >> The first thing I did was to check whether the index.lock file existed, >> but it doesn't. > > Is the output this clean? What I'm looking for is signs of automatic > garbage collection kicking in the middle of the rebase. Something like > "Auto packing the repository blah blah for optimum performance". Yeah, this is the exact output. I also thought about "git gc", but I don't see any output related to it. Is it possible that it's being executed in the background and not printing anything? Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/