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What else can cause "[lock failed]" besides branches that are dups except for case? [message #1807660]

Wed, 05 June 2019 18:42

David M. Karr

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Registered: July 2009

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In the teams I work with, many of them often make the mistake of creating branches whose name is the same as existing branches, except with a case difference. When this is done, some devs working on Windows (our main desktop interface) will get mysterious error dialogs in Eclipse with "[lock failed]" on every branch in the repository. I finally wrote a script that looks at all the remote branches for a repository and finds the ones that are dups except for case. This has fixed the problem in almost every single instance of this error report.

There is one person who is getting this same error in one repository, but I've run the script that checks for this, and there are no branches that are dups except for case.

I thought perhaps he might be getting this because he has local branches that aren't on the remote that are dups except for case, but he literally only has a single branch in the local repo.

What else might possibly be wrong that could cause this?

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Re: What else can cause "[lock failed]" besides branches that are dups except for case? [message #1807672 is a reply to message #1807660]

Wed, 05 June 2019 21:58

Matthias Sohn

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Did you check the Eclipse error log ?
There might be real lock failures. Shutdown Eclipse and search for files with extension .lock.
You may end up with stale lock files if Eclipse crashed or was killed.

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Re: What else can cause "[lock failed]" besides branches that are dups except for case? [message #1843147 is a reply to message #1807672]

Fri, 16 July 2021 14:07

David M. Karr

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I happened to notice this old note of mine. I think I know why this can happen even with my original script not showing any dups. My old script wasn't very thorough. I found a more robust way of finding all of the branch names (using the REST api for the SCM, not git), and in at least one case, I found more dup branches with that version.

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