Re: Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
<pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>> I've been using git for exactly this purpose succesfully for a while now
>>> (git 1.5.6.5 from Debian stable and I think also 1.7.2.3 from Debian
>>> testing).
>> Coming back to the testing machine I was using this on, I see this
>> problem as well now. I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before, which would
>> mean it was introduced by a recent upgrade.
>>
>> Checking the logs shows that I was running 1.7.1 before, and now 1.7.2.3
>> is broken. Downgrading to 1.7.1 indeed removes the problem.
>>
>> I've rummaged around in the source a bit, haven't found the cause yet
>> (and I'm out of time now).
>>
>> The issue also still occurs with a fairly recent git master (ca209065f:
>> completion: fix zsh check under bash with 'set -u').
>
> You may be interested in 72ec8ba (Support working directory located at
> root - 2010-02-14). t1509 reports the breakages. Unfortunately this
> kind of tests can't be run automatically

I think 490544b (get_cwd_relative(): do not misinterpret suffix as
subdirectory - 2010-05-22) causes it. Haven't fully understood what's
going on in that function though :P

Will look again tomorrow, if nobody beats me to it.
-- 
Duy