Unlink of file failed

Question

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

Answer 1

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