VS 2017 Git Local Commit DB.lock error on every commit

Question

We are getting this error on every local commit:

Git failed with a fatal error.error: open(\".vs/XXXXXX.Dev.Library/v15/Server/sqlite3/db.lock\"): P

Answer 1

My automatically generated .gitignore file contained /.vs instead of .vs/. Fixing this typo fixed the problem!