More friendly message when locking the index fails.

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.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Matthieu Moy
2009-02-19 13:54:18 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent b452cc16d8
commit e43a6fd3e9
3 changed files with 17 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -742,8 +742,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (newfd < 0) {
if (refresh_flags & REFRESH_QUIET)
exit(128);
die("unable to create '%s.lock': %s",
get_index_file(), strerror(lock_error));
unable_to_lock_index_die(get_index_file(), lock_error);
}
if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
commit_locked_index(lock_file))