diff --git a/pkg/environment/apply.go b/pkg/environment/apply.go
index c5801eb4..ff2f2355 100644
--- a/pkg/environment/apply.go
+++ b/pkg/environment/apply.go
@@ -184,11 +184,6 @@ func (a *Apply) ApplyBatch() error {
 func (a *Apply) applyNamespaceDirs(chunkFolder []string) error {
 	erroredNs := []string{}
 
-	err := util.GetLatestGitPull()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	done := make(chan bool)
 	defer close(done)
 
@@ -232,6 +227,15 @@ func (a *Apply) runApply(done <-chan bool, dirStream <-chan string) <-chan strin
 				ns := strings.Split(dir, "/")
 				namespace := ns[2]
 
+				pullErr := util.GetLatestGitPull()
+				if pullErr != nil {
+					if strings.Contains(pullErr.Error(), "index.lock") {
+						fmt.Printf("ignoring git lock error during parallel run\n")
+					} else {
+						return pullErr.Error()
+					}
+				}
+
 				err := a.applyNamespace(namespace)
 				if err != nil {
 					return "Error in namespace: " + namespace + "\n" + err.Error()
diff --git a/pkg/util/util.go b/pkg/util/util.go
index 0b59d633..b4172373 100644
--- a/pkg/util/util.go
+++ b/pkg/util/util.go
@@ -74,22 +74,20 @@ func GetLatestGitPull() error {
 	fmt.Println("Executing git reset")
 	resetErr := reset.Run()
 	if resetErr != nil {
-		fmt.Println(fmt.Sprint(resetErr) + ": " + stderr.String())
-		return resetErr
+		return errors.New(resetErr.Error() + ": " + stderr.String())
 	}
 
 	fmt.Println("Executing git pull")
 	err := pull.Run()
 	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Println(fmt.Sprint(err) + ": " + stderr.String())
-		return err
+		return errors.New(fmt.Sprint(err) + ": " + stderr.String())
 	}
 
 	return nil
 }
 
 // Redacted reads bytes of data for any sensitive strings and print REDACTED
-// This functiion is used to prevent slack webhooks URLS from being output in pipeline logs
+// This function is used to prevent slack webhooks URLS from being output in pipeline logs
 func Redacted(w io.Writer, output string, redact bool) {
 	re := regexp2.MustCompile(`^.*https://hooks\.slack\.com.*$`, 0)
 	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(strings.NewReader(output))