[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="4.154.4.22"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2013-10-12T23:31:16Z"
 content="""
Git simply creates a file as a lock file, and does not use any form of locking on it, so if the git process dies for any reason before it gets a chance to remove the lock file, a stale lock file remains, and future git commands will fall over it.

It's really surprisingly bad..
"""]]
