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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johnny Lee <johnnylee194@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:22:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106072253.GA9920@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488807870901052300y57f59b90rdc03cc47c790b416@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:00:52PM +0800, Johnny Lee wrote:

> 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
> 
> Is there anything wrong here?

It is normal for objects to be read-only. However, permission to unlink
a file comes from its directory permission. Is .git/objects/16 writable
by you?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-06  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06  7:00 Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc" Johnny Lee
2009-01-06  7:22 ` Jeff King [this message]
     [not found]   ` <488807870901052352w585da727r6d4a1e4ca4238cab@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-06  8:03     ` Jeff King
2009-01-06  8:09       ` Johnny Lee
2009-01-06 11:57       ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-06 15:05         ` Johnny Lee
2009-01-06 15:33           ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-07  5:59             ` Jeff King
2009-01-07  6:27         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-07 10:55           ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-07 12:29             ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-07 15:48             ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-07 18:00               ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-01-07 19:46                 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-06  8:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-06  9:18   ` Johnny Lee
2009-01-06 13:27     ` Matthieu Moy

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