Found a swap file by the name

Question

When I try to merge my branch with a remote branch:

git merge feature/remote_branch

I got this message:

E325: ATTENTION
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Answer 1

Looks like you have an open git commit or git merge going on, and an editor is still open editing the commit message.

Two choices:

1. Find the session and finish it (preferable).
2. Delete the .swp file (if you're sure the other git session has gone away).

Clarification from comments:

• The session is the editing session.
• You can see what .swp is being used by entering the command :sw within the editing session, but generally it's a hidden file in the same directory as the file you are using, with a .swp file suffix (i.e. ~/myfile.txt would be ~/.myfile.txt.swp).