https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6081
Bug ID: 6081
Summary: Improve message "waiting for lock ..." ?
Product: Mercurial
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: feature
Priority: wish
Component: Mercurial
Assignee: bugzi...@mercurial-scm.org
Reporter: pierre.aug...@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
CC: mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org
Some students were confused by the message
"waiting for lock on working directory of /home/me/tmp/tmp_repo held by process
'6631' on host 'gre/effffffc'"
See https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4752
I was told that Git prints a clearer explanation:
"
$ git commit -a
fatal: Unable to create '/tmp/git/.git/index.lock': File exists.
Another git process seems to be running in this repository, e.g.
an editor opened by 'git commit'. Please make sure all processes
are terminated then try again. If it still fails, a git process
may have crashed in this repository earlier:
remove the file manually to continue.
"
Wouldn't it be good to print something as clear/explicit as Git?
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