From: Ian Hobson <ian@ianhobson.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:13:31 GMT
Subject: Strange permission problem - advice needed
Message-ID: <4BD8185B.5060706@ianhobson.co.uk>

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