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From: Manu <manu@blairos.org>
Subject: Re: fatal: unable to create '.git/index': File exists
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:30:00 +0100
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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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