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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:53:14 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: git clone fails with: error: chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument
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On Jan 27 08:30, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/27/2016 7:41 AM, Rainer Blome wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >When I use "git clone foo bar" on a Linux host, it works as expected.
> >
> >  git clone foo bar
> >  Cloning into 'bar'...
> >  done.
> >
> >When I use the same command on my Cygwin 64 installation, this used
> >to work, but does not work any more.  I can fetch and otherwise use
> >Git in existing repos all right (have not noticed anything else
> >amiss), but the clone command fails like this:
> >
> >----
> >cd /cygdrive/c/base
> >git clone foo bar
> >Cloning into 'bar'...
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid ar=
gument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid ar=
gument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid ar=
gument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid ar=
gument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid ar=
gument
> >fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
> >fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> >
> >Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> >and the repository exists.
> >----
> >
> >Directory `bar` exists neither before nor after the attempted cloning.
> >In the parent directory, manually creating a subdirectory works as
> >expected:
> >
> >  /cygdrive/c/base> mkdir bar; ls -ld bar; rmdir bar
> >  drwx------+ 1 username 123 0 Jan 27 13:13 bar
> >
> >The issue is not restricted to local cloning, the same messages are
> >printed when I attempt to clone from a remote host (from which I
> >can clone just fine from a Linux client).
> >
> >Searching the internet for "cygwin git error chmod on config.lock
> >failed: Invalid argument" gave not useful results.
> >
> >I first noticed the issue after having upgraded to Cygwin 2.4.0-1.
> >Juding from the directory creation times in `base`,
> >it looks like the last successful clone happened on 2015-07-28.
> >I do not know which version of Cygwin I used at that time,
> >I update roughly once a month.
> >
> >Today, I upgraded to 2.4.1-1, the issue persists.
> >
> >I tried downgrading git from 2.7 to 2.6 via the installer.
> >The issue persisted, so I rolled forward again, the issue persisted.
> >
> >How can I troubleshoot this further?
>=20
> There might be a problem with the default ACL on the directory
> /cygdrive/c/base.  What does 'getfacl /cygdrive/c/base' show?

Also, what does the native windows icacls command print for that
directory?  The setup of the ACL may give us a hint why git apparently
fails to create the bar subdir.


Thanks,
Corinna

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