Error: cannot lock ref-Git and nasty “error: cannot lock existing info/refs fatal”

1.6K Asked by arun_3288 in Devops , Asked on May 5, 2021

After cloning from the remote git repository (at better codes) I made some changes, committed and tried to push:

git push origin master

Errors with:

error: cannot lock existing info/refs
fatal: git-http-push failed

This case regards already existing repository.

What I did before, was:

git config –global http.sslVerify false
git init
git remote add [url]
git clone
change data
git commit

At 'bettercodes' I have no access to git log.

I'm using Windows. The detailed error was:

C:MyWorkStuffProjectsRubyMyProject>git push origin master
Unable to create branch path https://user:password@git.bettercodes.org/myproject/info/
error: cannot lock existing info/refs
fatal: git-http-push failed

I cloned before, then changed the code and committed.

Answered by Amit raj

I was facing error:cannot lock ref and the solution worked for me:

      git remote prune origin

What this will do is it removes references to remote branches in the folder git/refs/remotes/origin. So this will not affect your local branches and it will not change anything remotely, but it will update the local references you have to remote branches. It seems in some cases these references may have data Git cannot handle correctly.

Error: cannot lock ref-Git and nasty “error: cannot lock existing info/refs fatal”

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