fatal: Unable to create '/.git/index.lock': File exists

Question

When I try to rename any image name in my Xcode Project it gives following error.

fatal: Unable to create '/.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.

Don't know what is going wrong. Thanks in Advance.

Columbarium

this may halp's u #9283132 – Heisel

I tried everything,but same result. – Columbarium

Check to see where you are issuing the command at. It should be issued at the root where you issued "git init" – Pascual

Possible duplicate of Git - fatal: Unable to create '/path/my_project/.git/index.lock': File exists. – Pair

Answer 1

Try

rm -f ./.git/index.lock

In your repository directory.

Bunny

@DesertRose try rm .git/index.lock – Brauer

@Deepesh Gairola Worked for me! – Claw

Answer 2

I had my local repo inside a Wordpress plugin folder hosted by Mamp on osx. The permissions for the local server was set to "www" in the Mamp permission settings. I changed the permissions back to me, and the "/index.lock“ needs to be removed manually."-problem went away.

Violent

Answer 3

For me, $rm index.lock while in my git repository also solved the problem

Welltimed

Answer 4

Inside your project folder, go to git folder and remove index.lock file.

Basketry