Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Multiple simultaneously locked ref updates

From: Martin Fick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:32:18 -0600

On Thursday, August 29, 2013 08:11:48 am Brad King wrote:
> 
>    fatal: Unable to create '....lock': File exists.
>    If no other git process is currently running, this
> probably means a git process crashed in this repository
> earlier. Make sure no other git process is running and
> remove the file manually to continue.

I don't believe git currently tries to do any form of stale 
lock recovery since it is racy and unreliable (both single 
server or on a multi-server shared repo),

-Martin