New to git, trying to follow an online course, but my ubuntu is behaving differently to the teacher's. I've searched for my error on stackoverflow and other websites. I found similar problems, but not the same problem. None of the answers helped me, so I made this new question.
In my local repo, when I enter "git init" I get:
error: chmod on /mnt/c/users/jds/documents/projects/testrepo/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'
However, in the folder (as seen in file explorer) I can see the .git file has been created.
If I then run the "git status" command, I get:
fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /mnt)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
I am on Windows 10, running this in Windows Subsystem for Linux.
----------------- UPDATE ------------------
I deleted the .git file and restarted ubuntu as the root user. When doing the above commands as the root user, it worked:
root@LAPTOP-ILK7ETOO:/mnt/c/users/jds/documents/projects/testrepo# git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /mnt/c/users/jds/documents/projects/testrepo/.git/
root@LAPTOP-ILK7ETOO:/mnt/c/users/jds/documents/projects/testrepo# git status
On branch master
No commits yet
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
root@LAPTOP-ILK7ETOO:/mnt/c/users/jds/documents/projects/testrepo#
But why couldn't I do this as the named user? I checked permissions with "ls -l" and the testrepo had full permissions enabled:
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 512 Jan 29 18:06 testrepo
CodePudding user response：
why couldn't I do this as the named user?
Because your non-root user can't chmod file, as written in error-message. And "How to fix it" is out of scope of SO
PS - existing .git dir is not a sign of functional Git-repository