Gracefully handle stale lock files in git repositories
In https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/2893, we see increased incidents of stale git lock files lingering around preventing pushes and updates.
Other relevant issues:
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/40440
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/1804
- https://sentry.gitlap.com/gitlab/gitlabcom/issues/85658/
@pcarranza asks:
this seems to be popping up a lot of times, could we investigating having a way to manage this from the application itself? Probably something on the "housekeeping" panel could make the repo read only and perform a clean operation on it.
This is tricky. Lock files exist for a reason. I wish we could reproduce the issue in some way. I'd hesitate to have a blanket Housekeeping button that wipes lock files there. It should only purge them if the files exist for longer than some time.
@DouweM @andrewn @smcgivern Thoughts on how best to handle this?
Edited by Stan Hu