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

Had this and my .gitignore was inside my project folder, but the main git folders were at the solution level. Moving .gitignore out to the solution/git level folders worked. Still not sure how it got there but...