Source Tree Error Please Help

[Gabriel Smith]

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?

[HenriqueA]

Hi Dfg,

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

Kind Regards,
Henrique Lechner

[Seth]

Correct. Which is what the error message is telling you to do.

[Seth]

If you can't find the .git folder, you may need to change your Windows File Explorer options to show hidden folders, or type the path directly into your address bar.

[André Neves]

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]

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.

[Alex Sedighi]

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.