How can i fix my fatal git error?

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I just wanted to commit my changes to my local git, when i noticed that the Local Changes window was missing all the changes of the past 3 hours, and was just showing the following error message:

I haven't changed anything in my setup compared to the last 50 commits. I had this problem 2 months ago already and wasn't able to fix it back then either, but I also noticed it fairly quickly and just pulled again and repeated the changes, but this time its not that easy.

How can I fix this problem, and restore the detected changes again, to stage them for a commit? In the files the changes are still there, but whatever I do, it's not getting tracked anymore.

EDIT: Hitting the refresh button in the local changes window in IntelliJ fixed it. Problem solved.

As the error says, the permission of .git/file refused to be open by git. Maybe try fix the permission of the file for your current user? — foodtooth
– foodtooth, Commented Nov 23, 2017 at 3:27
As I said, nothing was changed. It's just some git hickup I seem to have randomly. I just noticed though, that there is a manually refresh button for the local changes in intelliJ and everything seems to be back now. Going to close the question again now, if no problem remains. — grid96
– grid96, Commented Nov 23, 2017 at 3:29

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-23 05:37:38Z

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Whenever you see a permission denied on Windows when a process (here git.exe ls-file) tries to access a file, it is possible that file is preempted by another process.

When you see that error message, open a Process Explorer and look for (CTRL+F) the filename, to see if another process uses it.

answered Nov 23, 2017 at 5:37

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