'Unlink of file failed [duplicate]
I'm trying to do a git pull and I get the following error:
Unlink of file 'lib/xxx.jar' failed. Should I try again? (y/n)
No matter if I select y or n it's not possible to get to a state where I can pull or push.
Solution 1:[1]
This is a Windows specific answer, so I'm aware that it's not relevant to you... I'm just including it for the benefit of future searchers.
In my case, it was because I was running Git from a non-elevated command line. "Run as Administrator" fixed it for me.
Solution 2:[2]
For me, it was because Visual Studio was trying to reload all of the changed files from the pull. Have visual studio refresh, then run git gc.
Solution 3:[3]
On Windows using GitHub for Windows, I got a similar error in the shell when running git gc:
Unlink of file '.git/objects/pack/pack-0b40ae7eae9b83edac62e19c07ff7b4c175244f6.idx' failed. Should I try again? (y/n)
I solved it by closing the GitHub GUI.
Solution 4:[4]
Try to restart you Apache or other web server as it may have locked some of your files.
Solution 5:[5]
Closed Visual Studio and Rubymine and didn't get the error again. One of them was the culprit.
Solution 6:[6]
Close your IDE then do git pull . It will work.
Solution 7:[7]
I've got this problem too, but I found out it was the UltraEdit in the way, since I used UE to organize and edit my eclipse workspace~~
Maybe because the UE has a handle on the old version of specific file, Git could not unlink of it.
After I closed UltraEdit, the problem never happened again.
Solution 8:[8]
This was caused in my case by SimpLESS, the LESS compiler. You have to close it in the systray.
Solution 9:[9]
None of the above answers ain't work for me, but I run git gc command with force option, and it solved my case.
'git gc --force'
[Windows 7, Run As Administrator => Command Prompt]
Solution 10:[10]
The problem is because you're having some program that handling these files. I have an suggestion that you should use the Unlocker to find the program that's handling it:
Solution 11:[11]
I have had this happen on Windows XP, both with the message stuck in a loop, and being able to be cleared by replying.
The stuck-in-a-loop occurence was cleared by closing the Git-GUI. (I was running git merge -i in a bash shell.)
The other occurences happened possibly due to the large number of files in my repository. It happened mainly with .cod files, which I later exclude from version control. (I do have a reason for intially tracking them.) I believe the cause might be related to the rate at which Git uses file handles.
I wonder if the able-to-be-cleared-by-replying problem is Windows related, as two previous posters have mentioned Windows, and no one has said they have the problem with other operating systems.
Solution 12:[12]
I had PHPStorm open, closed that and all was well.
Solution 13:[13]
I had the same issue and I closed all the related programs from Window Task Manager. However, it was still not working. The interesting part is that I ran "Git rebase" instead of "Git pull" and it worked!
Solution 14:[14]
Try running command line editor in administrative mode and run command. It helps and solves problem. :)
Solution 15:[15]
In my case I had an old method of pruning tags causing the issue. I solved it by unsetting the original:
git config --global --unset remote.origin.fetch '\+refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*'
then adding this to prune deleted branches on the server:
git config --global fetch.pruneTags true
Solution 16:[16]
I faced the same error and resolved it by closing the eclipse and pulling again as the file was being used.
Solution 17:[17]
I had the same issue on windows. I was trying to run gc on windows while the file was being accessed on my Ubuntu VM. Closed Terminator and File explorer on Ubuntu worked for me.
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