How to resolve git did not exit cleanly exit code 128 error on TortoiseGit

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I ve run into this serious error while committing  and created a bug report   I keep getting this error on TortoiseGit operations      git did not exit cleanly  exit code 128    I ve reinstalled the program  rebooted  and tried to clone a fresh repo from github - nothing seems to work  I also deleted  appdata  Tortoise git folder     I m at a loss now  Any advice on how to proceed

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In my case  I forgot to add git to the respository name at the end

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It s probably because your SSH key has been removed revoked  Make a new one and add it to your GitHub account

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In my case  it was because of the proxy  A proxy was needed in the corporate network and TortoiseGit   Git does not seems to automatically get information from Windows internet settings  Setting up the proxy address solved the issue

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make sure the username and email fields are not empty in the config file  and try to clone to an empty directory  these steps worked for me

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If you re running windows 7      I was trying to decide the best way to do this securely  but the lazy way is     right-click the parent folder   click the  properties  button   click the  security  tab    click the  edit  button     click the group that starts with  Users   click the checkbox that says  full control    click all the OK s to close the dialogs    I realize this might circumvent windows  security  features  but it gets the job done

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Deleting index lock worked for me

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In my case a folder in my directory named as the git-repository on the server caused the failure

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For me  I tried to check out a SVN-project with TortoiseGit  It worked fine if I used TortoiseSVN though   May seem obvious  but newcomers may stumble on this one

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git-bash reports  fatal  Unable to create  lt Path to git repo gt   git index lock  File exists    Deleting index lock makes the error go away

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I was having this same issue and I resolved it in the following way     I have the NVIDIA  Tegra Android Development Pack  installed and it seems to also have a version of mysysgit exe with it  TortoiseGit automatically found that installation location  instead of the standard git installation  and auto-populated it in the settings menu   To correct this  go to   Settings -  General  and there is a field for the path to mysysgit exe  Make sure this is pointing to the correct installation

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I did git revert a multiple times  and it worked for me  make sure  un-check the files while reverting you need changes  Stash your changes and pull again

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for me I simply had to add configure my git username and email with the following commands   git config --global user email  you example com  git config --global user name  Your Name

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An quick solution would be to create a new local directory for example c  git 2014  In this directory rightklick and choose Git Clone

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on win7 64   git-gui gives a good answer  a previous git has crashed and left a lock file  Manually remove  In my case  this was in  git ref heads branchname lock   delete  and error 128 goes away  It surprises that tortoisegit doesn t give such an easy explanation

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