After updating git to v2.35.2.windows.1 I'm getting the following error:

fatal: unsafe repository ('F:/GitHub/my-project' is owned by someone else)
To add an exception for this directory, call:

        git config --global --add safe.directory F:/GitHub/my-project

I've tried adding the parent directory of my projects to .gitconfig but it doesn't work.

[safe]
    directory = F:/GitHub/
    directory = F:/Private/

• Is there a workaround for this? I don't want to add every single project I'm working on to the .gitconfig file.

• What does it actually mean by "'x' is owned by someone else"? As far as .gitconfig is concerned user.name and user.email are the same.

Note: I'm using

CodePudding user response：

We have fixed this issue by fixing the .git/objects permissions. We were actually unable to add files without sudo because of the bad permissions.

CodePudding user response：

In my case, on an Ubuntu 20.04.4 system, the project folder had the ownership set to the application user e.g www-data:www-data, but the .git folder when initiated had it's ownership set to root:root.

To fix this issue I changed the ownership on my project folder to root:root so as to match it's contents (including .git folder). Then all git actions started working as normal.

CodePudding user response：

In my case case I just copy the message and write sudo then pest the massage. After pressing enter button the issue have gone

For example :

sudo git config --global --add safe.directory your-path 

your path = as shown in message