Source Tree often fails to commit

[stevestreeting]

This is a git failure, and I've only ever heard of it once before, and it was when a mixture of the command line and SourceTree were being used, across git versions which had breaking changes (particularly in submodule support).

Please try telling SourceTree to use your command-line git install, Preferences > Git > Use System Git

[pqg]

Versions were similar (system 1.7.10.2 vs embedded 1.7.11.1), don't do anything with submodules or the like, but setting it to Use System Git has indeed solved the issue, thanks.

[stevestreeting]

My guess is maybe a bug / feature in your older version that's leaving temp files around when 1.7.11.1 expects them to be deleted already. Usually mixing versions works fine but occasionally something like this comes up. Glad you have it sorted out.

[Timothy Kelty]

I get the same error often.

I swtiched to my system git (1.8) and still no luck.

[pqg]

I'm getting this once again, different repo, but doesn't matter if system or embedded git, no submodules invovled either.

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false commit -q -F /var/folders/xc/bgspnlyn75g6cwp06r_lw3nr0000gn/T/SourceTreeTemp.zmuqvX 
error: unable to create temporary file: File exists
error: Error building trees
Completed with errors, see above