Github windows: Commit failed: Failed to create a new commit

Question

I have: http://windows.github.com/

My current project has around 20k files, around 150MB (and not speaking about how slow it is and I cannot do a thing now) it doesn\'t

Answer 1

I had this problem too after an unexpected crash. I couldn't fix using the 'Open Shell' option as suggested. I had to open the Windows CLI (Start -> run -> cmd) and delete the index.lock file in my GitHub folder:

cd \Users\myUser\my\local\github\repo
cd .git
del index.lock

Then when I went back to the GitHub app, it committed successfully.

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Note that for some people, according to comments, the file to delete doesn't have the .lock extension, so the delete command could also be del index.