Blog Maintenance Errors
Git: Fatal index.lock error
After typing git commit Filename.file
, instead of git commit -m "Your commit message here"
, I found that
I got the error
To fix this, I went into Atom, opened the .git
folder corresponding with this file, and removed the file index.lock
. After doing this, everything worked.
Stack overflow helped fix this issue.
Publishing Jekyll posts
To publish a jekyll post, and get it to show, go through the steps here.
The post definitely needs to be inte _posts
directory, but the file name and title don’t actually have to match. The .markdown
exetension is important. If your post’s date is set in the future, you won’t see the post on locahost:4000
, until the time has passed.