Unlink of file Failed. Should I try again?

Question

Something wrong is going on with one of the files in my local git repository. When I\'m trying to change the branch it says:

Unlink of file \'templates/media         


        

Answer 1

I had this kind of issue on Windows 7 and it turned out to be due to some orphaned git.exe process.

To solve it, open Task Manager and kill all git.exe processes.

Since git commands are short-lived, you should normally never see any git.exe in Task Manager. When they are there, it usually means something is wrong, and you should kill those processes.