I realized that I recently upgraded from version 1.5.3.7 to 1.5.4.5. I
double checked and downgraded again, and yes, I don't have any problems
running "git gc" with the older version, but I get the below error
message with the newer version of git.

nick


On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:53 -0600, Nicolas Bock wrote:
quoted text
> Hello list,
> 
> when running "git gc" I get the following error message as of late:
> 
> $ git gc
> error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*'
> error: failed to run reflog
> 
> When I rsync the directory tree to another machine, I can run "git gc"
> without any error messages. What exactly does this error mean? Why would
> locking fail?
> 
> Thanks already,
> 
> nick
> 
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