# Strange permission problem - advice needed

3 messages from 2010-04-28 to 2010-04-28. Participants: Ian Hobson, Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23627

## Ian Hobson, 2010-04-28 11:13

Subject: Strange permission problem - advice needed
Message-ID: <4BD8185B.5060706@ianhobson.co.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BD8185B.5060706%40ianhobson.co.uk

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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

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## Johannes Sixt, 2010-04-28 12:30

Subject: Re: Strange permission problem - advice needed
Message-ID: <4BD82A6A.7080502@viscovery.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BD82A6A.7080502%40viscovery.net
In-Reply-To: <4BD8185B.5060706@ianhobson.co.uk>

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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

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## Ian Hobson, 2010-04-28 13:09

Subject: Re: Strange permission problem - advice needed
Message-ID: <4BD833A2.2060304@ianhobson.co.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BD833A2.2060304%40ianhobson.co.uk
In-Reply-To: <4BD82A6A.7080502@viscovery.net>

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On 28/04/2010 13:30, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 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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