Whenever you run an operation in Git, it creates index. Below is a few of the outputs we've seen :. Now let's go through possible solutions to make the "error: cannot lock ref" goes away. As all general computer-related advice said : When in doubt, restart! The quickest way you can get rid of "error: cannot lock ref" is to remove the remote so that you can add it again later.
You can print it to the terminal using this command:. The command will remove references to remote branches in the folder. So this will not affect your local branches and it will not change anything remote, but it will update the local references you have to remote branches.
It seems in some cases these references can contain data Git cannot handle correctly. I think this is related to the new background fetching we added in 1. I'm going to move this into 1.
I'm going to mark this as resolved for 1. I saw this error again too. Only once though, and it was after pulling from a non-github repo. Reopening this because I believe that is the proper solution. Skip to content. Star New issue. Jump to bottom.
Labels bug priority Milestone 1. Copy link. Hi, I still get this issue with 1. Abdulhakim Zeinu Abdulhakim Zeinu 1, 21 21 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. This always works for me. Suggestion - Please run with --dry-run option for safety.
What worked for me was: git config --global fetch. AndrewA AndrewA 51 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Clone the repository again, and copy the.
Gabriel Santos Carvalho Gabriel Santos Carvalho 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. This works, i have tried all other stuffs, prune them etc This is exactly what my situation was.
I had the files open in vs-code and trying to commit using visual studio in the Parallels VM. Closing VSCode and then doing a git pull worked perfectly. Thanks for sharing. In my case, both the conflicting branches belonged to another user so I couldn't delete one. Instead, I deleted the branch ref file under. My issue was also due to local branch and remote having different capitalization. Deleting local branch, using the prune command above, and then checking out from origin solved it — descript.
Remove file. Nitin Agarwal Nitin Agarwal 21 1 1 bronze badge. I doubt that this helps - or even works at all. To covince me otherwise please add an explanation of how this should work and why it is supposed to help with the problem. Highlighting the differences to seemingly similar existing other answer would be a bonus. Especially the upvoted one by Babak. Hazok Hazok 4, 4 4 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges.
Speaking from a PC user - Reboot. Peter Lenahan Peter Lenahan 61 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. William Baker Morrison 1, 4 4 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Isaac S Isaac S 21 3 3 bronze badges. Mike Szyndel 9, 7 7 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 61 61 bronze badges. Sourabh Jain Sourabh Jain 29 1 1 bronze badge. Please edit to add additional details that will help others understand how this addresses the question asked.
You can find more information on how to write good answers in the help center. This work for me rm. Saurabh Kumar Saurabh Kumar 43 6 6 bronze badges. Deleting the file will also solve the problem.
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