VS 2017 Git Local Commit DB lock error on every commit

Question

Every time we commit locally, we receive the following error:

Git failed with a fatal error.error: open(".vs/XXXXXX.Dev.Library/v15/Server/sqlite3/db.lock"): Permission deniedfatal: Unable to process path .vs/XXXXXX.Dev.Library/v15/Server/sqlite3/db.lock

Before it can sync to Azure DevOps GIT, this is a completely new installation of VS 2017 utilizing the local git repository.

We can erase the lock file manually and then sync normally; however, this significantly slows down the development process (having to close, delete, open, and commit every time).

Is there a better long-term solution to this problem?