fatal: unable to get credential storage lock: File exists

Question

I am using git-scm and tried to push to a repository. Upon doing so, I was greeted with the following message:

fatal: unable to get credential storage lock: File         


        

Answer 1

in my case on windows there was a git credentials .lock added in my c:\users\xxxx directory where all global git config lives.

i deleted the lock file which also removed the git credentials file that stored my password in clear text