can't commit with sublime text git on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

When I'm trying to commit my work from inside sublime it gives me the following message:

fatal: Unable to create 'my_project_path/.git/index.lock': File exists.

If no other git process is currently running, this probably means a
git process crashed in this repository earlier. Make sure no other git
process is running and remove the file manually to continue.

I checked that but the index.lock is not exists at all! and when I commit in terminal everything is good.

any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this

rm -f my_project_path/.git/index.lock

Sometimes, there is inconsistencies preventing git to release the lock, you also, just in case, should run git consistence checks to make sure your local git repo is consistent:

git fsck

Answer 2

I downgraded git from 2.1.0 to 1.9.1 and all good now.