From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:59:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"
Message-ID: <7vy6xohkt2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <488807870901052300y57f59b90rdc03cc47c790b416@mail.gmail.com>

"Johnny Lee" <johnnylee194@gmail.com> writes:

> 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


Check "ls -ld .git/objects/16" and see if it is owned by you and writable
by you.

In sane POSIX filesystem semantics, it should not pose with problem with
respect to removal that a file is unwritable.

What counts is the writability of the parent directory.