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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More friendly message when locking the index fails.
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:12:47 +0100
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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