Strange permission problem - advice needed

Hi all,

I'm using git on windows (XP) and the GUI told me there were too may objects so I allowed it to tidy up. It errors, that it could not unlink some files. So I checked the properties - all files are readable.

I repeated the gc in git bash with the following results.

$ git gc Counting objects: 398, done. Compressing objects: 100% (205/205), done. Writing objects: 100% (398/398), done. Total 398 (delta 191), reused 398 (delta 191) rm: cannot unlink `pack-6f07bacdef764f32f12af14877b307d2cb36a1e4.pack': Permission denied rm: cannot unlink `pack-6f07bacdef764f32f12af14877b307d2cb36a1e4.idx': Permission denied rm: cannot unlink `pack-cba55771937a4549af73c09c17b10cfceb1320df.pack': Permission denied rm: cannot unlink `pack-cba55771937a4549af73c09c17b10cfceb1320df.idx': Permission denied Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done.

Ian@MARS /d/websites/SOPSystem (master) $ git version git version 1.7.0.2.msysgit.0

Note - this is Windows XP so there are no permissions on the files. The files are all local.

I even disabled AVG and tried again. Same result.

What is going on? and does it matter?

A thought - I copy/pasted (not cloned) the whole repo from a Samba share (presented by Ubuntu) about 2 weeks ago. Could it be something left over from that? The share was read/write and I owned all the files.

Thanks

Ian