Another git process seems to be running in this repository

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I m trying to learn how to use Git and have created a small project with an HTML  CSS  and Javascript file  I made a branch from my basically empty project and then made some changes to my code  I tried staging the changes but I get the following error message   Another git process seems to be running in this repository  e g  an editor opened by  git commit   Please make sure all processes are terminated then try again  If it still fails  a git process may have crashed in this repository earlier  remove the file manually to continue    Granted  I did run into problems trying to commit my empty project earlier and just quit git bash since I didn t know how to get out of where I somehow had gotten    Is there any way for me to fix this or should I just start a new repository

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Use the below command in the root directory of the application  This will delete the index lock file and release the active lock   rm  git index lock

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I tried deleting  git indexbut didn t work  I end up uninstalling go and removing all folders that has go name in it  and then installing go again  and it workerd

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Had the same problem using SourceTree  But there were no any index lock file on my host at all  I ve found packed-refs lock file  and after deleting it  the problem was solved

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i faced the same issue  issue was i tried to push my code with a xml file  used as a data set  which has size of 1 3gb   so i add these file into  gitignore and then problem solved

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It may be happening your branch is corrupted create new branch git branch  check branch  I have  created a new branch and working    branch -b  main  git checkout -b  main    main is new branch git add   git commit -m  all files  git remote add origin    YOUR REPO    https   github com tarun-techmarbles wp-dump-sql-git-push git git push origin main   push with new branch

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My Mac is slow so I ran 2 git commits  one executed and the second was blocked by the first  I tried rm -f  git index lock  rm  git refs heads  your-branch-name  lock    lt path to your repo gt   git index lock  lt path to your repo gt   git modules  lt path to your submodule gt  index lock   Ankush   find   grep    lock   rm -f    git index lock this was useful to check - no  lock file was lurking  I did what  Chole did - checked out of my IDE exited and looked at a git-status once more  Then ran a  git add    git commit -m msg   git push It cleared the 2 terminals that were running commands and solved the problem  Hope this helps someone - the diagnostics were good so thanks all  very helpful  A slow Mac has caused this problem before - so now I just wait for a bit before running a second commit that conflicts with the first

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Solved it by going into the  git folder and manually deleting the HEAD lock file

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Well  what helped me was simply making a copy of the repo folder with everything including the  git folder and working from the copy   I made a copy of the repo folder I navigated into the copy and deleted the  git index lock file  amp  then i was able to initiate a PR I deleted my original repo folder I renamed the copy to the original  That worked for me

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Delete index lock in here    lt path to your repo gt   git index lock   Also  if your repository has submodules  delete all index lock in here as well    lt path to your repo gt   git modules  lt path to your submodule gt  index lock

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If you are using CocoaPods and at some point botched an update or install  manually killed it or something   try  1  Removing the index lock file  in  git index lock   2  Remove your Podfile lock file   3  Do a new pod update  4  Try issuing the git command that was failing  in my case it was a git add

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Though there is an alternative above  but that didn t solve mine  In my case  I delete the  git  plugin in   zshrc and reboot the computer then the issue is gone  I guess the zsh plugin had done something conflict the original git command

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In case can help somebody else    I tried with command line rm -f  git index lock and didn t work  terminal didn t show any error   I just went directly to folder  git and delete the index lock file   Note   git folder is located in your root repository and is hidden  In mac  Cmd Shift   to see hidden files

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I got this error while pod update  I solved it by deleting the index lock file in cocoapods s  git directory   rm -f  Users my user name  cocoapods repos master  git index lock   It might help someone

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I have same faced issues when i tried to staged file in SourceTree   To solve this go to the  git folder in the project directory and manually delete index lock and you are done

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use following command in case you are facing Another git process seems to be running in this repository e g  an editor opened by  git commit   Please make sure all processes are terminated then try again  If it still fails  a git process may have crashed in this repository earlier  remove the file manually to continue      rm -f  git index lock  git reset and after reset command use git status  git add  and git commit -a or git commit -m  your message   git push origin master

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This happened to me and while sourcetree kept telling me the lock file exists  there was no such a file there for me to remove  So I just checked out another branch and then returned to the original branch and noticed this change fixed the issue

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If you wind up here based on the question s title   Another git process seems to be running in this repository    note that the accepted answer will not be directly applicable to you if the message in this question s title is preceded by another message like the one below   fatal  cannot lock ref  HEAD   Unable to create    lt PATH gt   lt TO gt   lt REPO gt   git refs heads  lt BRANCH gt  lock   File exists   In this case  you should delete that file  lock  instead of  git index lock

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If you are on PowerShell  use rm -Force  git index lock

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Try deleting index lock file in your  git directory   rm -f  git index lock  Such problems generally occur when you execute two git commands simultaneously  maybe one from the command prompt and one from an IDE

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I faced same problem  I had to do little more to resolve this  First I deleted index lock then I cloned fresh code from existing git repository location  I had my code changes in seperated location  I copiped  git folder and  gitignore file and pasted in the code folder where I had made code changes  Then I tried to commit and push  it worked smoothly   May be this impormation will be helpful if your problem doesn t by above given solutions

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For me the problem was simpler  this was in source tree so I m not sure how much it ll apply to regular solutions but I accidentally had my master branch selected trying to make a commit rather than my uncommitted changes   This wouldn t normally be a problem but I had already preemptively entered a commit message so I could track what I was doing for that little sprint I was on    Basically  I started a commit on the uncommitted branch and was accidentally trying to start another commit on my master branch

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For me for any reason    rm  git index lock   Didn t work  so I just went to the  git file and deleted it manually which worked fantastically

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Deleting my commit message worked for me   rm  git COMMIT EDITMSG   It then said       fatal  cannot lock ref  HEAD   Unable to create   git refs heads  your-branch-name  lock   File exists    Do notice that your branch name might be different than mine  You can delete this lock file by doing   rm  git refs heads  your-branch-name  lock   Hope this helps someone

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just for clarification  for those wondering why rm and del    rm  git index lock - on a unix linux system del  git index lock - on a windows cmd prompt   you could add -f to force the operation that works

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For me the solution was as simple as closing my IDE and then checking out   A teammate of mine had accepted my PR and merged the code via TFS   Removing the  lock files did not work

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It is similar to above methods but in my case I had several of those   git refs heads  lt branch name gt  lock   and was able to remove all at once by this way  find -name    lock  -exec xargs rm

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Ok I ended up getting it to work by running    git rm  git index lock     It s weird because I did that a few times before to no avail but hey computers right

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If you are windows user there will be error  rm  is not recognized as an internal or external command  That s because rm is a Linux command  So in windows  you can use below to remove the index lock file inside  git folder  del -f  git index lock

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rm -f  git index lock didn t help  because I had a locked file that couldn t be deleted  So  index lock also had been captured by some application  In Windows I downloaded an alternative to Unlocker called Lock Hunter and deleted both files  Git captured them

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