git rebase: “error: cannot stat 'file': Permission denied”

Question

I\'m using git, and made a small commit followed by a large one. I decided to use git rebase to squash the two commits together before pushing them. (I\'ve ne

Answer 1

I just ran into this issue. Non of the answers here happened to solve this for me.

Ended up being nuget packages I added on a branch that, once switched back to master branch, seemed to not exist. Once I did a merge it would say newtonsoft...xml could not stat. I would go to the file in question and open it but Windows threw an error back saying it can't find the file (even though I was looking right at it)

How I solved this was right click delete the file (which worked but I couldnt open it because windows couldnt find it???) and try to merge again and it solved the problem.

Very strange.

Hope this helps someone later.

Answer 2

If the IDE you use(in case you use one) might have been getting in the way as well. That's what happened to me when using QtCreator.

Answer 3

if using vscode, kill terminal and open new one. else maybe close terminal too

Answer 4

I agree with the above "Close Visual Studio" answers.

However, an additional step I had to do even after I'd closed Visual Studio was to manually kill the "devenv.exe" Visual Studio process in Task Explorer. After I had done this I was able to again run in gitbash:

git pull

and the "cannot stat filename" error disappeared. It is perhaps due to a Visual Studio extension keeping the process open for longer even after closing.

Answer 5

Using SourceTree in Win 10, fixed the problem by closing Atom editor.

Error reproduce:

1. In branch B, create a md file, using Atom edit it, save and commit.
2. Switch to branch A, pull down new commits from server.
3. Try Switch back, Opps, it says “error: cannot stat 'file': Permission denied”.

Answer 6

My encounter with this problem was caused by my editor, Intellij. As part of its internal version controls, it had gone through and locked all hidden git files. (For various reasons, I was not using the git plugin that comes with Intellij...)

So I opened a normal dos window as Administrator, changed to the directory, and executed

attrib -R /S

That removed the lock on the files and everything worked after that and I could sync my changes using the GitHub windows client.