
How to Manually Remove a Stuck Git index.lock File
If Git operations suddenly fail with an error like fatal: Unable to create 'path/.git/i...

If Git operations suddenly fail with an error like fatal: Unable to create 'path/.git/i...

You're trying to push or pull code in VS Code, but you see an error like Authentication...

You're in the middle of a git merge, and instead of the usual conflict markers, you see

If you see fatal: Unable to create 'path/to/.git/index.lock': File exists., ...

You run git pull or git merge and get:
fatal: refusing to...
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