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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify the "cannot lock existing info/refs" error
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:28:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304192853.GA10567@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236181026-15385-1-git-send-email-johnflux@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:37:06PM +0000, John Tapsell wrote:
> -fprintf(stderr, "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs\n");
> +error("cannot lock existing info/refs on remote server\nPerhaps the
> server is currently busy, or your ~/.netrc file is not configured
> correctly.");

In my experience this is usually caused by http-push crashing and leaving
stale locks behind until it times out after 10 minutes. I don't think we
should speculate here unless we can narrow down the error condition.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-04 15:37 [PATCH] Clarify the "cannot lock existing info/refs" error John Tapsell
2009-03-04 19:28 ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
2009-03-05  8:00   ` John Tapsell
2009-03-05  8:50     ` Clemens Buchacher

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