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

Try running command line editor in administrative mode and run command. It helps and solves problem. :)

Answer 2

Try to restart you Apache or other web server as it may have locked some of your files.

Answer 3

None of the above answers ain't work for me, but I run git gc command with force option, and it solved my case.

'git gc --force'

[Windows 7, Run As Administrator => Command Prompt]

Answer 4

I've got this problem too, but I found out it was the UltraEdit in the way, since I used UE to organize and edit my eclipse workspace~~

Maybe because the UE has a handle on the old version of specific file, Git could not unlink of it.

After I closed UltraEdit, the problem never happened again.

Answer 5

I had PHPStorm open, closed that and all was well.

Answer 6

I faced the same error and resolved it by closing the eclipse and pulling again as the file was being used.