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From: Albert Strasheim <fullung@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:24:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=UPWTeZP9uF+FGtsSs7wH3AmwdeLtsPJQnKvez@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello all

I'm trying to use git to version all the configuration files on a server:

su
cd /
git init
cd /
touch k
git add k #this works
cd /etc
git add hosts

This fails with:

fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory

I'm running git-1.7.3.2-1.fc14.x86_64.

Is there any way to convince git to work in this scenario?

Regards

Albert

             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17  6:24 Albert Strasheim [this message]
2010-11-17 11:20 ` Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-18 15:52   ` Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-18 16:00     ` Santi Béjar
2010-11-18 16:07     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-18 16:26       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-18 17:17         ` Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-18 20:36           ` Matthijs Kooijman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-24  8:01 Ilyas --
2010-11-24  8:45 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-11-24  8:50   ` Matthijs Kooijman
2010-11-24  9:46     ` Ilyas --

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