Git error - unable to unlink old 'some/file/name' (Bad file descriptor)

Question

When trying to switch/checkout (in TortoiseGit) to another branch, I get the following error:

error: unable to unlink old \'foo/bar.cfc\' (Bad file descripto         


        

Answer 1

If your problem is based on eclipse locking file, you can start your eclipse with -Dosgi.locking=none. I ran into this problem with eclipse Luna 4.4.0