if (active_cache_changed) {
                if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
-                   commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
+                   close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
                        die("Unable to write new index file");
        }
 
 
 
        if (write_index) {
                if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
-                   commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
+                   close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
                        die("Unable to write new index file");
        }
 
 
        }
 
        if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
-           commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
+           close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
                die("unable to write new index file");
        return 0;
 }
 
 
        if (active_cache_changed) {
                if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
-                   commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
+                   close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(&lock_file))
                        die("Unable to write new index file");
        }
 
 
  finish:
        if (active_cache_changed) {
                if (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
-                   commit_lock_file(lock_file))
+                   close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(lock_file))
                        die("Unable to write new index file");
        }
 
 
                                      missing_ok, 0) < 0)
                        die("git-write-tree: error building trees");
                if (0 <= newfd) {
-                       if (!write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr))
+                       if (!write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr)
+                                       && !close(newfd))
                                commit_lock_file(lock_file);
                }
                /* Not being able to write is fine -- we are only interested
 
 
        if (0 <= newfd &&
            (write_cache(newfd, active_cache, active_nr) ||
-            commit_lock_file(&lock_file)))
+            close(newfd) || commit_lock_file(&lock_file)))
                die("Unable to write new index file");
        return 0;
 }