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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git config error message
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:24:54 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711122224190.4362@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071112222317.GF2918@steel.home>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> Jon Smirl, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 16:35:07 +0100:
> > I'm not in a git repo, this error message is misleading.
> > 
> > jonsmirl@terra:~/foo$ git config remote.origin.url
> > http://git.digispeaker.com/projects/digispeaker-kernel.git
> > could not lock config file
> > 
> 
> Cygwin or any crashes in this repo lately?
> If cygwin, than we probably have a file handle leak in config code.

He said that he's not in a git repo.  Thus, .git/config does not exist, 
and is not lockable, since not even .git/ exists.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-12 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 15:35 git config error message Jon Smirl
2007-11-12 22:23 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-12 22:24   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-11-12 22:26     ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-12 23:09       ` Jakub Narebski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-27  8:10 Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-27  8:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-27  8:32   ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-27  8:44     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-27  8:45     ` Ben Walton
2012-10-27 10:36       ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-27 13:14         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-27 14:50           ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-27 16:12             ` Andreas Schwab

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