From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More friendly message when locking the index fails.
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:12:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0902190612u7819bda9s50638ed46df5cb64@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235048058-6181-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Heya,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 13:54, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> Just saying that index.lock exists doesn't tell the user _what_ to do
> to fix the problem. We should give an indication that it's normally
> safe to delete index.lock after making sure git isn't running here.
Surely we need a 'git cleanup' which will attempt to clean up such
mess, fail miserably most of the time and might even corrupt your
repository further! Oh wait, wrong VCS...
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 8:36 Recovering the index after a git crash? Matthieu Moy
2009-02-04 9:58 ` [PATCH/RFC] More friendly message when locking the index fails Matthieu Moy
2009-02-04 11:50 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-02-06 13:38 ` Recovering the index after a git crash? Mikael Magnusson
2009-02-06 14:36 ` [PATCH] More friendly message when locking the index fails Matthieu Moy
2009-02-06 15:09 ` [PATCH v3] " Matthieu Moy
2009-02-07 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-19 12:54 ` [PATCH] " Matthieu Moy
2009-02-19 14:12 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
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