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Cant remove branch, lock file esists. #2827

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opened 2026年07月01日 10:05:02 +02:00 by Kieeps · 5 comments

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so i run renovate on my gitops repo and i noticed it started failing a lot, turns out it has a lot of problems removing a branch it created.

i keep getting this error:
remote: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/renovate/oci.trueforge.org-truecharts-nextcloud-45.x': Unable to create '.../refs/heads/renovate/oci.trueforge.org-truecharts-nextcloud-45.x.lock': File exists.

i asked on Matrix and apparently i was not alone:
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116837817511801832

is it possible to have the .lock removed manually?

### Comment so i run renovate on my gitops repo and i noticed it started failing a lot, turns out it has a lot of problems removing a branch it created. i keep getting this error: `remote: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/renovate/oci.trueforge.org-truecharts-nextcloud-45.x': Unable to create '.../refs/heads/renovate/oci.trueforge.org-truecharts-nextcloud-45.x.lock': File exists.` i asked on Matrix and apparently i was not alone: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116837817511801832 is it possible to have the .lock removed manually?

Similar error on my repo, can't do anything with the branch
remote: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/renovate/ghcr.io-mealie-recipes-mealie-3.x': Unable to create '/mnt/ceph-cluster/git/gitea-repositories/psmet/kube.git/./refs/heads/renovate/ghcr.io-mealie-recipes-mealie-3.x.lock': File exists.

Similar error on my repo, can't do anything with the branch `remote: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/renovate/ghcr.io-mealie-recipes-mealie-3.x': Unable to create '/mnt/ceph-cluster/git/gitea-repositories/psmet/kube.git/./refs/heads/renovate/ghcr.io-mealie-recipes-mealie-3.x.lock': File exists.`

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cant find a lock file in any of your repos

@Kieeps cant find a lock file in any of your repos
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@ashimokawa wrote in #2827 (comment):

@Kieeps cant find a lock file in any of your repos

no they are not in the repo, the path suggests they are on the serverside filesystem though

@ashimokawa wrote in https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2827#issuecomment-18407810: > @Kieeps cant find a lock file in any of your repos no they are not in the repo, the path suggests they are on the serverside filesystem though
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@ashimokawa wrote in #2827 (comment):

@Kieeps cant find a lock file in any of your repos

oh sorry i didn't realize who you where ;D though you was some user trying to help :) but yea... the entire branch is gone... not sure how? :D maby someone helped me after i reported in on matrix.

anyway, thanks for the response :)

@ashimokawa wrote in https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2827#issuecomment-18407810: > @Kieeps cant find a lock file in any of your repos oh sorry i didn't realize who you where ;D though you was some user trying to help :) but yea... the entire branch is gone... not sure how? :D maby someone helped me after i reported in on matrix. anyway, thanks for the response :)
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