From: Sylvain Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 06:34:31 GMT Subject: Re: Git commit error: fatal: Repository has been updated, but unable to write new_index file. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120327122045.GA7421@ikke-laptop.buyways.nl> Hi, I'm also experiencing this issue (msysGit 1.7.10-preview20120409 + TortoiseGit 1.7.9.0 + Intellij IDEA 11). Don't you think it could be related to parallel usage of msysGit + TortoiseGit? I.e. after committing with msysGit (through IDEA or not), TortoiseGit would launch a background operation (such as updating index) that would mess with msysGit? Just a guess, I don't know internal behaviour of msysGit/TortoiseGit. Sylvain