Another git process seems to be running in this repository

Question

I\'m trying to learn how to use Git and have created a small project with an HTML, CSS, and Javascript file. I made a branch from my basically empty project and then made so

Answer 1

just for clarification, for those wondering why rm and del.

rm .git/index.lock - on a unix/linux system
del .git/index.lock - on a windows cmd prompt

you could add -f to force the operation that works.

Answer 2

Use the below command in the root directory of the application. This will delete the index.lock file and release the active lock.

rm .git/index.lock

Answer 3

i faced the same issue, issue was i tried to push my code with a xml file (used as a data set) which has size of 1.3gb , so i add these file into .gitignore and then problem solved

Answer 4

If you are windows user there will be error 'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command. That's because rm is a Linux command. So in windows, you can use below to remove the index.lock file inside .git folder

del -f .git/index.lock

Answer 5

I got this error while pod update. I solved it by deleting the index.lock file in cocoapods's .git directory.

rm -f /Users/my_user_name/.cocoapods/repos/master/.git/index.lock

It might help someone.

Answer 6

It is similar to above methods but in my case I had several of those

.git/refs/heads/<branch_name>.lock

and was able to remove all at once by this way

find -name "*.lock" -exec xargs rm {} \;