fatal: unable to get credential storage lock: File exists

Question

I am using git-scm and tried to push to a repository. Upon doing so, I was greeted with the following message:

fatal: unable to get credential storage lock: File         


        

Answer 1

This is what fixed the problem for me on Window: I run git config --list --show-origin and find all credential.helper=XXX configs, then go to all directories containing those .gitconfig files and change that setting to credential.helper=store

Also, your local config should be helper = manager too: go to .git/config and add/modify this line like this:

[credential]
helper = manager