Stale lock file

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Paul Snively

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Jan 17, 2010, 12:31:44 PM1/17/10
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Hi everyone,

There seems to be a stale lock file in my test repo. Is there some way
that I can delete it? Short of that, is there some way that an
administrator can delete it? :-)

Best regards,
Paul

thomas hartman

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Jan 17, 2010, 12:49:49 PM1/17/10
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1) Do you have the exact error message? ( so I can maybe add an faq
about it)

2) I just ran

psnively-testproject # rm _darcs/lock
psnively-testproject # darcs check
The repository is consistent!

manually.

In general, if your repository is borked and you want to recover
without administrative intervention, you can pull all to local->delete
patch-tag repo-> recreate patch-tag repo with same name -> push to
patch tag repo as described in

http://patch-tag.com/troubleshoot-wiki-browsing

I may add web-enabled user actions to recover from common failure
scenarios such as stale lock file etc. I probably am not going to
enable any kind of shell abilities beyond the completely crippled
shell you can currently get, for security reasons.

happy tagging :)

thomas.

thomas hartman

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Jan 17, 2010, 1:09:32 PM1/17/10
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This seems like a fortuitous point to introduce the patch-tag public
bug tracker, hosted as an anonymously editable gitit wiki on patch
tag:

http://patch-tag.com/r/tphyahoo/patchtag-public-bugs/wiki/feature/Delete+Stale+Lock+File+in+Online+Repo

It has been running in stealth mode for a few days... hello world : )

A few words about this.

Gitit for bugs a bit of an experiment for me, trying to eat my own
dogfood by using an existing patch-tag feature to bug track rather
than using a more full featured free tracker/todo list such as google
code or basecamp, or building my own.

Until now, patch-tag has used fogbugz in free 2-person mode, but I
didn't want to spend $25/month to upgrade out of 2-person mode, and
yet I really need a place for public to list their bugs and suggested
features.

I will try not to be a fanatic about dogfooding. If gitit for bug
tracking seems to be more work than it is worth, I will switch to
something that gets the job done better. It seems to be working ok in
the limited test so far, so I am going for it :)

http://patch-tag.com/r/tphyahoo/patchtag-public-bugs/wiki/

thomas.

On Jan 17, 11:49 am, thomas hartman <thomashartm...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

Eric Kow

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Jan 18, 2010, 6:58:59 AM1/18/10
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On Jan 17, 6:09 pm, thomas hartman <thomashartm...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> This seems like a fortuitous point to introduce the patch-tag public
> bug tracker, hosted as an anonymously editable gitit wiki on patch
> tag:
>
> http://patch-tag.com/r/tphyahoo/patchtag-public-bugs/wiki/feature/Del...

Hooray! Thanks

> Gitit for bugs a bit of an experiment for me, trying to eat my own
> dogfood by using an existing patch-tag feature to bug track rather
> than using a more full featured free tracker/todo list such as google
> code or basecamp, or building my own.

It's a bit free-form, which can be good or bad.

> I will try not to be a fanatic about dogfooding. If gitit for bug
> tracking seems to be more work than it is worth, I will switch to
> something that gets the job done better. It seems to be working ok in
> the limited test so far, so I am going for it :)

Here's an alternative that I've been told to try, but never got around
to http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage

The key feature is that it explicitly supports Darcs (along with other
revision control systems).

Eric

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