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git-tf tells on linux me “Could not lock” when checking in; how can I fix it?

I'm using git-tf to push to a TFS project on lin. Sometimes, when I try to check one or more commits into TFS, I get a message like this:

Connecting to TFS... Checking in to $/MyProject: 0% git-tf: Could not lock $/MyProject

What does this mean? What's keeping me from locking? And how can I fix this?

I found out that a workspace has locked the project, but I don't know which, and I don'w know how to recover this.

A search on internet hints me to all kind of Windows dependent fixes, but that does not help me on a linux system.

So, although this question appears to be a duplicate, it is more meant on how to fix the issue on Linux.

Solution

  • Eventually I found out, that this can be fixed by removing the workspace that locked the repository.

    tf workspaces -remove:myLockedWorkSpaceName

    However, after that it was still locked remotely. Eventually, I had to connect to the repository via visual studio from a windows machine.

    There:

    File->Source Control->Advanced->Workspaces

    Toggle "remote workspaces"

    Select the git-tf-##### workspace(s) and remove them.

    After that, everything works again.

    Somehow, I still don't know how to do this from a LINUX command line.