From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:22:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"
Message-ID: <20090106072253.GA9920@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <488807870901052300y57f59b90rdc03cc47c790b416@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:00:52PM +0800, Johnny Lee wrote:

> While I'm looking at these "unable to unlink" files, it seems they are
> read only:
> git@tomato:~/golf$ ls -l .git/objects/16/
> total 4
> -r--r--r-- 1 johnny johnny 26 2009-01-05 09:25
> b14f5da9e2fcd6f3f38cc9e584cef2f3c90ebe
> 
> Is there anything wrong here?

It is normal for objects to be read-only. However, permission to unlink
a file comes from its directory permission. Is .git/objects/16 writable
by you?

-Peff