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 is how it works for me.

1. look up the Apache DAV lock file on your server (e.g. /var/lock/apache2/DAVlock)
2. delete it
3. recreate it with write permissions for the webserver
4. restart the webserver

Even faster alternative:

1. look up the Apache DAV lock file on your server (e.g. /var/lock/apache2/DAVlock)
2. Empty the file: cat /dev/null > /var/lock/apache2/DAVlock
3. restart the webserver