From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Johnny Lee" <johnnylee194@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:59:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy6xohkt2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488807870901052300y57f59b90rdc03cc47c790b416@mail.gmail.com> (Johnny Lee's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:00:52 +0800")
"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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 9:00 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
[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 [this message]
2009-01-06 9:18 ` Johnny Lee
2009-01-06 13:27 ` Matthieu Moy
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