Git and nasty “error: cannot lock existing info/refs fatal”

Question

After cloning from remote git repository (at bettercodes) I made some changes, commited and tried to push:

git push origin master

Errors

Answer 1

This happened to me when my git remote (bitbucket.org) changed their IP address. The quick fix was to remove and re-add the remote, then everything worked as expected. If you're not familiar with how to remove and re-add a remote in git, here are the steps:

1. Copy the SSH git URL of your existing remote. You can print it to the terminal using this command:

   git remote -v

which will print out something like this:

 origin git@server-address.org:account-name/repo-name.git (fetch)
 origin git@server-address.org:account-name/repo-name.git (push)

2. Remove the remote from your local git repo:

   git remote rm origin

3. Add the remote back to your local repo:

   git remote add origin git@server-address.org:account-name/repo-name.git