git-cola/git-cola — Issue #99: git-cola often interfers with git interactive rebase
Author: luchio
Created: 2011-11-22 21:03:07+00:00
State: open

Most of the time, when I try to do an interactive rebase (git rebase HEAD~10 -i), and re-order/reword some commits, the operation fails if git-cola is open in the background. Here's what git rebase says:

> fatal: Unable to create '/home/user/myProject/.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."

it's quite annoying that I have to close git-cola each time before doing interactive rebasing, because I do that often. I actually made a bash macro to always kill git-cola before rebases, but a more permanent solution for everyone would be better...