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: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:50:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090305085052.GA24669@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903050000g4466ab2fne5fb8ed009808346@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:00:37AM +0000, John Tapsell wrote:
> On google I found that people had been getting that error if they have
> the wrong password.
That's easy enough to verify. Using the wrong username/password I get
error: Cannot access URL $url, return code 22
error: failed to push some refs to '$url'
which is not very helpful, but otherwise unrelated.
> -fprintf(stderr, "Error: cannot lock existing info/refs\n");
> +error("cannot lock existing info/refs on remote server\n");
That's a less ambiguous but equally unhelpful error message.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-05 8:52 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
2009-03-05 8:00 ` John Tapsell
2009-03-05 8:50 ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
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