I was just trying to commit changes to the Git master. From what I have read, it seems that the idea is to delete the lock file. The message says:
make sure no other Git processes are running and remove the file manually
Perhaps someone knows, which file to remove and how to remove?
The file in question is likely .git/index.lock and it should be safe to just remove it if you have no other git processes running. Make sure a git-svn command isn't hanging.
PS My usual approach to fixing git-svn problems is to make a fresh pull of the repository. Time consuming, but you can do it in parallel with trying to fix the problem. Have a little race between you and git. Of course, this only works if you didn't have unpushed commits.
Removing the
index.lockfile like Schwern stated will solve this problem.
You can remove it by running rm -f ./.git/index.lock
The rm command is used to remove (delete) files and directories.
The -f stands for force which tells your computer to remove the files without prompting for confirmation
For "GUI" user like me
Open Git Extension and choose repository (if more than one) Choose "Settings" from top menu then "Git Maintenance" and then click on "Delete Index Lock"
Git Extensions: Settings->Git Maintenance->Delete Index Lock
It may also concern any *.lock files in .git/
Check and remove them. You may use: rm -f ./.git/*.lock
You have already opened a commit in another tab in the terminal
I solve this error by just following steps:-
It solve this Problem
The answer giving by @Joel helped, except that for windows users you may have to enable show hidden files/folders to access .git folder where index.lock file exist. Use this link in case you don't know how to enable hidden folders.
Removing the index.lock file like Schwern stated will solve this problem.
You can remove it by running rm -f ./.git/index.lock
The rm command is used to remove (delete) files and directories.
The -f stands for force which tells your computer to remove the files without prompting for confirmation
still not working means open the git through git bash instead of doing in terminal
I was facing the issue, and I couldn’t even able to find the index.lock.
My environment was a little bit different, a cluster with multiple nodes.
The issue was encountered in the master node, and I solve it just by jumping to the worker node since the master node is chaired by all connected user
I was getting this issue in git bash although there was no index.lock file. Surprisingly, the "git pull" worked on first go in Windows command prompt. Tricky it was!
Just type .git Infront of the project path.
For example: C:\DotNetAngularProject\MyApp\.git
You will get list of files & folders list of file names like HEAD,FETCH
Delete index.lock file manually.
Close your project & restart again.
Issue will be solved.
C:\etc\.git\index.locklike any other file.