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Strange permission problem - advice needed

Subject: Strange permission problem - advice needed

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Ian Hobson· Apr 28, 2010, 11:13 UTC · lore
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
Johannes Sixt· Apr 28, 2010, 12:30 UTC · re: Ian Hobson · lore

Re: Strange permission problem - advice needed

Am 4/28/2010 13:13, schrieb Ian Hobson:
> I'm using git on windows (XP) ...
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> $ 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.

Chances are that you have a hung git process that has the files open. Kill it and retry.

-- Hannes
Ian Hobson· Apr 28, 2010, 13:09 UTC · re: Johannes Sixt · lore

Re: Strange permission problem - advice needed

On 28/04/2010 13:30, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Am 4/28/2010 13:13, schrieb Ian Hobson:
>    
>> I'm using git on windows (XP) ...
>>      
>    
>> $ 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.
>>      
> Chances are that you have a hung git process that has the files open. Kill
> it and retry.
>
> -- Hannes
> --
>    
Thanks Hannes,
Your were completely correct.

All sorted now. Regards Ian

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