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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/gc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/gc.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/gc.c b/builtin/gc.c index a55f54c09f..364cb0eacf 100644 --- a/builtin/gc.c +++ b/builtin/gc.c @@ -2893,8 +2893,17 @@ static int update_background_schedule(const struct maintenance_start_opts *opts, char *lock_path = xstrfmt("%s/schedule", the_repository->objects->odb->path); if (hold_lock_file_for_update(&lk, lock_path, LOCK_NO_DEREF) < 0) { + if (errno == EEXIST) + error(_("unable to create '%s.lock': %s.\n\n" + "Another scheduled git-maintenance(1) process seems to be running in this\n" + "repository. Please make sure no other maintenance processes are running and\n" + "then try again. If it still fails, a git-maintenance(1) process may have\n" + "crashed in this repository earlier: remove the file manually to continue."), + absolute_path(lock_path), strerror(errno)); + else + error_errno(_("cannot acquire lock for scheduled background maintenance")); free(lock_path); - return error(_("another process is scheduling background maintenance")); + return -1; } for (i = 1; i < ARRAY_SIZE(scheduler_fn); i++) { |