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I started to get an error suddently when pushing any branch of a certain project to bitbucket.

When I do: git push, I get the following:

inotify_add_watch: No such file or directory
registerToSubTree : warning, failed to register /home/user/workspace/project/.git/refs/remotes/origin/dev.lock :Error watching /home/user/workspace/project/.git/refs/remotes/origin/dev.lock : No such file or directory

What can be causing this? Thanks

duduklein
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  • Are you running this from the command line, or are you working within an IDE such as Eclipse? – platforms Dec 02 '12 at 16:34
  • from the command line. I do use an IDE (Aptana, which runs under Eclipse), but all the git commands are from the shell. I'm having this problem on an Ubuntu 10.04 – duduklein Dec 02 '12 at 18:10
  • OK - and which version of git are you using? – platforms Dec 02 '12 at 18:25
  • Can you upgrade to the current stable version, 1.8.0.1? Your version of git is over three years old. You can [get it here](http://git-scm.com/downloads) or with `apt-get`. – platforms Dec 04 '12 at 00:45
  • I can't. apt get says this is the last version for me and your link also points the version I already have for ubuntu 10.04 – duduklein Dec 07 '12 at 00:19

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I've just had this error when committing from the command line (using Ubuntu 13.04 with git 1.8.1.2). 

$:~/dev/myLogger$ git push origin master
**Everything up-to-date**
inotify_add_watch: No such file or directory
registerToSubTree : warning, 
    failed to register /home/me/dev/myLogger/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master.lock :
    Error watching /home/me/dev/myLogger/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master.lock : No such file or directory

I had Eclipse (with the Aptana Plugin for HTML development) open.

Closing Eclipse and rerunning the command and the error went away.

Giovanni
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