VS 2019 .gitignore doesn't remove the error "db.lock permission denied"

Question

I am trying to do git add . on my project but this certain error always appear. I have looked at every possible way on how to fix this and the top results always show to add .gitignore and still the error open(".vs/*****/v16/Server/sqlite3/db.lock"): Permission denied is showing. Any ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

The top results always show to add .gitignore and still the error

That would work only if .vs/ is not already tracked by Git.

Check first:

cd C:\path\to\my\repository
git rm --cached -r .vs/
echo .vs/>>.gitignore

The git add command should now work:

git add .

Answer 2

for this if you work in visual studio when adding files in to git using git bash,first close visual studio. then use git bash to add files to github.It works for me.