{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eco-data-science/github-intro/issues/3","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eco-data-science/github-intro/issues/3/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eco-data-science/github-intro/issues/3/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eco-data-science/github-intro/issues/3/events","html_url":"https://github.com/eco-data-science/github-intro/issues/3","id":108382761,"number":3,"title":"can't commit from git window in rstudio","user":{"login":"afredstonhermann","id":13241241,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13241241?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann","html_url":"https://github.com/afredstonhermann","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afredstonhermann/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-09-25T18:26:08Z","updated_at":"2015-09-25T18:26:08Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I (hopefully) followed the instructions from our github intro workshop and created a new repository for some research I'm doing and cloned it while starting a new R project. However, when I try to commit any code from rstudio's git window, I get this error: \r\n\r\nfatal: Unable to create '/Users/alexa/GitHub/species-traits/.git/index.lock': File exists.\r\n\r\nI didn't find many consistent answers from Google and I thought one of you might know how to solve this one! "}}