Source Tree Error Please Help

Question

fatal: Unable to create 'C:/Users/Jon/Documents/DoomCarts/.git/index.lock': File exists.

If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a

git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git

process is running and remove the file manually to continue.

How can we commit?

Alex Sedighi · Answer

This happened to me and while sourcetree kept telling me the lock file existed, there was no such a file there for me to remove. So I just checked out another branch and then returned to the original branch and noticed this change fixed the issue.

André Neves · Answer

This is a known bug: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-5639

You should open that bug and vote for it, to give it more priority.

As a work-around, use the solution proposed by Henrique Lechner:

If you're not running other GIT process, just delete the C:/Users/Jon/Documents/DoomCarts/.git/index.lock file and try again.

johankronberg · Answer

I get this a lot when switching branch. Sometimes it's enough to just wait a couple of seconds and then try again. Other times I need to Exit SourceTree and start it up again before being able to switch branch.