git index lock File exists when I try to commit but cannot delete the file

Question

When I do  git commit   I m getting the following   fatal  Unable to create  project path  git index lock   File exists   However  when I do ls project path  git index lock it s saying the file doesn t exist  Any thoughts on what I should do  I ve also noticed that project path  git is owned by root  not sure if that has anything to do with the problem I m encountering   git version is 1 7 5 4  edit  It seems that the problem most likely was another process I had running  that was writing  unbeknownst to me  to the project directory  I restarted my machine and then I had no problem committing

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On Linux  Unix  Git Bash  or Cygwin  try   rm -f  git index lock  On Windows Command Prompt  try   del  git index lock          For Windows     From a PowerShell console opened as administrator  try  rm -Force    git index lock      If that does not work  you must kill all git exe processes  taskkill  F  IM git exe      SUCCESS  The process  git exe  with PID 20448 has been terminated    SUCCESS  The process  git exe  with PID 11312 has been terminated    SUCCESS  The process  git exe  with PID 23868 has been terminated    SUCCESS  The process  git exe  with PID 27496 has been terminated    SUCCESS  The process  git exe  with PID 33480 has been terminated    SUCCESS  The process  git exe  with PID 28036 has been terminated       rm -Force    git index lock

[git] git index.lock File exists when I try to commit, but cannot delete the file

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