On Tuesday, March 12 2019, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:48 AM Sergio Durigan Junior > <sergiodj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > Any chance you have a cronjob or other task execution mechanism that > is running git commands in various directories (even simple commands > like 'git status' since it's not read-only contrary to what some > expect, or 'git fetch' which might trigger a background gc)? Nope, nothing like this. AFAIK, nothing is touching that repository at the same time that I am. Besides, even if I wait some minutes before trying again, the bug manifests again. -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/