I realized that I recently upgraded from version 1.5.3.7 to 1.5.4.5. I double checked and downgraded again, and yes, I don't have any problems running "git gc" with the older version, but I get the below error message with the newer version of git. nick On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:53 -0600, Nicolas Bock wrote: > Hello list, > > when running "git gc" I get the following error message as of late: > > $ git gc > error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*' > error: failed to run reflog > > When I rsync the directory tree to another machine, I can run "git gc" > without any error messages. What exactly does this error mean? Why would > locking fail? > > Thanks already, > > nick > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html