lazygit: fatal: Unable to create `../index.lock`: File exists.

For some time now lazygit seems to bug all the time. I’m 100% sure that there are no other programs running in the background that could do some git operations.

I try to open lazygit from the terminal, but everytime I try to do any operation after that I get the error about the git lock. So I remove it by hand rm -rf .git/index.lock and get back to lazygit, same thing.

It doesn’t matter if I do this from bare console or from the console inside neovim. Sometimes after deleting the index.lock file and getting back it works fine, only to complain again a usage later.

If I remove the file manually and then use git commands instead of using lazygit, everything works fine.

Windows, but I’m on WSL2 kali-linux Linux stacjonarny 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Wed Oct 28 23:40:43 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux Lazygit version 0.34

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Created 2 years ago
Comments: 25 (6 by maintainers)

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Still meet this issue on 0.40.2.

My experience is that when this lock window appear, I exit lazygit, delete the index.lock file, and enter lazygit, then:

If I stage one file by hitting space on one file, the lock window appears again.
If I stage all files by hitting a, the lock window won’t appear. Then if I hit a again to unstage, and stage one file, the lock window won’t appear.

Saafo on Aug 11, 2023

Welp, fun while it lasted

mark2185 on Aug 3, 2022

Uhhh, well then… try updating? 😅

mark2185 on Jul 28, 2022