Subject: Re: git config error message

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:09:26 +0100

Alex Riesen wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 23:24:54 +0100:
>> Hi,
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
>>> Jon Smirl, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 16:35:07 +0100:
>>>
>>>> I'm not in a git repo, this error message is misleading.
>>>> 
>>>> jonsmirl@terra:~/foo$ git config remote.origin.url
>>>> http://git.digispeaker.com/projects/digispeaker-kernel.git
>>>> could not lock config file
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cygwin or any crashes in this repo lately?
>>> If cygwin, than we probably have a file handle leak in config code.
>> 
>> He said that he's not in a git repo.  Thus, .git/config does not exist, 
>> and is not lockable, since not even .git/ exists.
>> 
> 
> Oh.

And neither does per-user config file (I triet to reproduce this error, and
forgot about ~/.gitconfig file).

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Jakub Narebski
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