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Bug 356764

Summary:	improve usability of lock failure
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Maxime Jeanmart <maxime.jeanmart>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	planger, remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Maxime Jeanmart

2011-09-06 03:33:07 EDT

Build Identifier: 1.0.0.201106090707-r

Trying to access a repository whose lock wasn't released fails with the following message using eGit: 
"Exception caught during execution of merge command. java.io.IOException: Cannot lock D:\Personal Folder\My Documents\git\source\types\.git\index
Exception caught during execution of merge command. java.io.IOException: Cannot lock D:\Personal Folder\My Documents\git\source\types\.git\index"

Not knowing what to do, I decided to try using Tortoise GIT. This tool gave me a much better message: 
"fatal: Unable to create 'd:/Personal Folder/My Documents/git/source/types/.git/index.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."

Now I know what to do. Could you please improve the message by telling the user how to solve the issue? Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create index.lock file in the .git folder of a repository
2.try to pull

Comment 1 Philip Langer

2015-03-27 05:00:27 EDT

Sounds like a dupe of bug 339781