Eclipse Egit Failed to commit

Question

I got Eclipse for PHP developers 3.0.2 With Egit 2.2.0 installed, and I am on windows 7 I got my project and repository set up and linked. Yet i cant commit changes. this is the error i get:

Exception caught during execution of add command
   Exception caught during execution of add command

I got Git for windows installed and set that in the Git configuration. I also got my HOME variable set up with %USERPROFILE%

Also my project location is on a remote server that i mapped to Z:

This includes the git repo as well.

That remote location has Lubuntu 12.10 installed. It has git installed as well.

Fragonard

I would advise against having the Git repository you are working with on a network share, it can cause various problems. – Humfrey

but i dont know how to make the git repo and the working location in diferent locations...can you tell me how? – Fragonard

I assume you push against a central repository that is different from the one on the network share, no? I meant that your local repository and working directory should be on a local disk. Separate locations for the .git and its associated working directory is not supported by Git, they are always a unit. – Humfrey

Answer 1

I found what was the problem. Git locked it self witha file in the ./git/index.lock

After i removed that everything worked fine.

Fragonard

Answer 2

Thanks to @NaGeL182.. I got it working now because Git locked

So I need to delete the .git/index.lock file

1. On Mac just Hit below command On Terminal

rm -f ./.git/index.lock

on Windows

del .git\index.lock

Hope this will help.

Prankster

Answer 3

My 2 cents... My git workspace is mapped locally on the dropbox folder (i'm a bit paranoid and prefers double backup options). Sometimes there's a mismatch with the sync process and dropbox keeps the git .lock file. Since all i care about is my resources and not the git metadata - i've simply unchecked the .git folder from synching online.

Poseur

Answer 4

give this a try, go to your repository and execute below command !

chmod -R 777 .git 

Tripodic

Before you paste this in even more locations, please take the time to read Is it acceptable to add a duplicate answer to several questions?. – Algor

Answer 5

I hit this issue on a Windows 11 machine. The fix was to remove the 'hidden' attribute from all files under the .git directory

Adverse