From: Manu <manu@blairos.org>
To: "Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:30:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f898cca90701050930l21338b88t1bd75e037beeca05@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701051150.09968.lenb@kernel.org>
Got this message once.
The reason was a git process still had a lock on the index file.
Make sure you have no git processes left running from the interruption
of git pull.
ps -ux | grep "git"
Manu
On 1/5/07, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
> I kicked off a pull.
> Realized I was on the wrong branch
> and immediately did a ^C
>
> Now I can't change branches:
>
> # git checkout release
> fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists
> fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists
>
> git reset --hard
> does not help.
>
> curiously, moving .git/index to /tmp and repeating
> results in the same error.
>
> clues?
>
> thanks,
> -Len
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-05 16:50 fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists Len Brown
2007-01-05 17:30 ` Manu [this message]
2007-01-05 20:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-06 9:24 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2007-01-06 3:01 ` Len Brown
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