error: cannot lock ref.. 'refs/tags' exists; cannot create 'refs/tags/

Question

I\'m getting a strange \"cannot lock ref\" error when trying to pull changes from github. I\'ve tried git gc, and looked around for similar errors but can\'t find a solution.

Answer 1

Running

git remote prune origin

Worked for me. Not sure why this was the issue, but seems like there was a broken reference to a remote branch.