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tooling: land.sh aborts on a transient worktree index.lock instead of retrying

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
git, shell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading land.sh and the 20260930T102659Z land-log around the orchestrator worktree reset. Reproduce or trace the index.lock failure, then add bounded retries with a short backoff to the reset and any similarly vulnerable git steps. Done means transient index.lock races are retried and persistent failures still abort clearly.

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Description

task

land.sh's reset of the orchestrator worktree onto origin/main failed with 'index.lock: File exists' (land-log 20260930T102659Z); the lock was gone seconds later (likely a concurrent git status from the session or harness). Retry that step a few times with a short backoff before failing; other git steps in the script may hit the same race.

Dominant language
Kotlin
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