Git - fatal Unable to create path my project git index lock File exists

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I am still getting this error message  when I try to move my project tree on to git repo    I checked the permissions of my directory with this project and these are set on 777  In terminal in the directory with my project I set      git init   and then if I try     git add     or     git commit -m  first upload    so I ll get the error  fatal  Unable to create   path my proj  git index lock   File exists   If no other git process is currently running  this probably means a git process crashed in this repository earlier  Make sure no other git process is running and remove the file manually to continue    I tried also create a new repo and there to commit it  but unfortunately still the same error message   What is the cause of problem

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In case someone is using git svn  I had the same problem but could not remove the file since it was not there   After checking permissions  touching the file and deleting it  and I don t remember what else  this did the trick    checkout the master branch  git svn rebase  on master  checkout the branch you were working on git svn rebase

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For me it was   rm -r  git-credentials lock

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In my  git directory  there was no index lock file   So  using the Git Bash shell  I ran     cd  git touch index lock rm index lock   The touch command created the file  and the problem went away

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If you are using one of  intelliJ IDEs and receiving this msg  i m using  webtorm   please notice that this problem can occur because of hiding one of project folders  inside settings   and this can prevent GITfrom merging

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If it s a submodule  try this instead on your repository directory    rm -f     git modules submodule-name index lock   change submodules-name to your submodule name

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In Mac OS X do this in the command prompt from the repo directory   cd  git rm index lock

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I had this occur when I was in a subdirectory of the directory corresponding to the root folder of the repo  ie the directory in which  git was   Moving up to the root directory solved the problem - at the cost of making all file references a bit more inconvenient as you have to go path to folder foo ext instead of just foo ext

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You have problem with  git index lock so delete it using below command   Command      sudo rm -rf  git index lock

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DO NOT USE the Atom platformio-atom-ide-terminal Plugin to do this   USE THE TERMINAL OF YOUR DISTRO DIRECTLY   I kept getting this error while rebasing squishing commits and didn t know why because I had done it before several times    Didn t matter how many times I would delete the index lock file  every time it would fail   Turns out it was because I was using the ATOM EDITOR terminal plugin  Once I used the terminal that ships with Ubuntu it worked like a charm

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simply go to D  project androidgc  git  this directory and delete index lock this worked for me

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I tried it with many methods several times but this one worked for me  I used PyCharm s terminal         cd  git     rm -f index lock   Then I tried again to create an empty git repo      git init    git add      git commit -m  commit msg

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A restart of the machine worked for me  None of the solutions provided so far worked for me  Env Windows 10   Git Bash EDIT  I see the same solution was here  git index lock File exists when I try to commit  but cannot delete the file

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I think there s a better solution than removing the file  and god knows what will happen next when removing creating a file with sudo    git gc

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All the remove commands didn t work for me what I did was to navigate there using the path provided in git and then deleting it manually

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A little adding because I had to use different answers to get the actual solution  for me     This did it for me    Open branch you are working on Open terminal  I use terminal in Git GUI  Typ in command  cd  git Typ in command  rm -f index lock   Some may have to use -Force instead of -f   You can check the command lines of your terminal by executing a command in your terminal something like  git help

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Try  rm -f    git index lock   In your repository directory  The error message is rather explicit as to what causes it typically  so if you have no other git processes running  which is the normal case   go ahead and delete that file

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Also we can just kill git process  I receive the same issue via GUI app for git  something goes wrong and git makes some work infinitely  Killing process will freeze application that works with git  just restart it and everything will be ok

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I was having the same problem  I tried  rm -f    git index lock    and the console gave me an error message  Then  I tried   rm --force    git index lock   and that worked   Good Luck  This works super

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In Windows  I only managed to be able to delete the lock file after Ending Task for all Git Windows  32bit  processes in the Task Manager   Solution  Win 10   1  End Task for all Git Windows  32bit  processes in the Task Manager  2  Delete the  git index lock file

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In my case the solution was to wait 5 minutes  Obviously my previous operation was still running but I just didn t know it  I was using tortoise git on windows

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The solution that worked for me was closing sublime text because the running git process was initiated by the editor

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The resolution for this problem is copying the three xcode project files in the directory and then creating new directory  Whereever else  and then paste the three files directories

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If after you try      rm -f    git index lock   you get      rm  cannot unlink  index lock   Permission denied   Try closing all software that might be using Git   I had Source Tree and Visual Studio opened and after closing both the command worked

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Did you accidentally create the repository using the root user    It just happens that I created the git repository as the root user    I deleted the git repository and created it again without sudo and it works

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Use This   rm -Force    git index lock

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All the solutions are right   Just remove  git from your corrupted repository    then copy this file if back from another clone  if you don t have it in another machine  just clone it     Finally  what made the difference to me    Avoid using sudo to unzip or copy the new  git folder  Git won t have access to the  git folder if you use superuser rights to create it

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I had changed my directory permission so I knew it could be permission related  In my case I removed unwanted   www  users and then applied read write permission to everyone by apply changed to all contents  This is on Mac

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In case  for whatever reason  you are doing a rebase from a folder that s being sync d by a cloud service  dropbox  drive  onedrive  etc   you should pause or turn off syncing as it will interfere with permissions during the rebase

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i have this problem too  and i find it really a permission problem  so i do this    sudo chown -R    git  change group sudo chmod -R 775  git  change permission   then ererything is great  and gaa is success   and then i use gp  i get another error almost the same error  sudo chown -R    USER -  id -un       use this can fix the problem

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Try quitting Xcode - since it s a git client  you have to quit Xcode to avoid problems with git on the command line

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In Windows  do this in the command prompt from the repo directory   cd  git del index lock   UPDATE   I have found that I don t need to do this procedure if I wait a moment after I close out the files I m working on before I try to switch branches   I think sometimes this issue occurs due to git catching up with a slow file system  Other  more git-knowledgeable developers can chime in if they think this is correct

[git] Git - fatal: Unable to create '/path/my_project/.git/index.lock': File exists

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