fatal: unable to get credential storage lock: File exists

Question

I am using git-scm and tried to push to a repository. Upon doing so, I was greeted with the following message:

fatal: unable to get credential storage lock: File exists 

While the push did end up pushing successfully, I was wondering why this error appeared. It is still doing this, and was not doing this before. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same issue today. It turned out that I somehow had two configs for credential.helper. Use git config --list to check whether your have multiple credential.helper="XXX".

In my case, I had credential.helper=manager in global config and credential.helper=store in local config.

I removed the local one in path-to-git-project/.git/config and solved the problem.