Found a swap file by the name

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When I try to merge my branch with a remote branch   git merge feature remote branch   I got this message   E325  ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name   git  MERGE MSG swp            owned by  xxxxxx   dated  Mon Nov 12 23 17 40 2012          file name   xxxxxx Desktop My-ios-App  git MERGE MSG           modified  YES          user name  xxxxxx   host name  unknown-b8-8d-12-22-27-72 lan         process ID  1639 While opening file   git MERGE MSG               dated  Tue Nov 13 14 06 48 2012       NEWER than swap file    1  Another program may be editing the same file      If this is the case  be careful not to end up with two     different instances of the same file when making changes      Quit  or continue with caution    2  An edit session for this file crashed      If this is the case  use   recover  or  vim -r  git MERGE MSG      to recover the changes  see   help recovery        If you did this already  delete the swap file   git  MERGE MSG swp      to avoid this message   Swap file   git  MERGE MSG swp  already exists   O pen Read-Only   E dit anyway   R ecover   D elete it   Q uit   A bort    How to deal with this

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I ve also had this error when trying to pull the changes into a branch which is not created from the upstream branch from which I m trying to pull   Eg - This creates a new branch matching night-version of upstream  git checkout upstream night-version -b testnightversion   This creates a branch testmaster in local which matches the master branch of upstream   git checkout upstream master -b testmaster    Now if I try to pull the changes of night-version into testmaster branch leads to this error   git pull upstream night-version   while I m in  master  cloned branch   I managed to solve this by navigating to proper branch and pull the changes   git checkout testnightversion git pull upstream night-version    works fine

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MERGE MSG swp is open in your git  you just need to delete this  swp file  In my case I used following command and it worked fine   rm  MERGE MSG swp

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Looks like you have an open git commit or git merge going on  and an editor is still open editing the commit message   Two choices    Find the session and finish it  preferable   Delete the  swp file  if you re sure the other git session has gone away     Clarification from comments    The session is the editing session  You can see what  swp is being used by entering the command  sw within the editing session  but generally it s a hidden file in the same directory as the file you are using  with a  swp file suffix  i e    myfile txt would be    myfile txt swp

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More info    Some times  swp files might be holded by vm that was running in backgroung  You may see permission denied message when try to delete the files

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Accepted answer fails to mention how to delete the  swp file       Hit  D  when the prompt comes up and it will remove it     In my case  after I hit D it left the latest saved version intact and deleted the  swp which got created because I exited VIM incorrectly

[git] Found a swap file by the name

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