fatal could not create work tree dir kivy

Question

I m trying to clone my fork of the kivy git  but it s not working  I ve made the fork correctly  I believe  but when I type this into my Mac terminal      git clone https   github com mygitusername kivy git   I get this error      fatal  could not create work tree dir  kivy   Permission denied   Anyone see what I am doing wrong  Thanks

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The directory in which you are trying to write the file or taking the clone of git repository, it does not has the write permission. That's why this problem is occurring.
Please change the write permission of directory.
Then clone the repository.

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I had the same error on Debian and all I had to do was   sudo su   and then run the command again and it worked

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Assuming that you are using Windows  run the application as Admin  For that  you have at least two options      Open the file location  right click and select  quot Run as Administrator quot        Using Windows Start menu  search for  quot Git Bash quot   and you will find the following   Then  just press  quot Run as Administrator quot

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If you are working on a mac  then this is probably because you don t have permission to write to the directory  When I had this issue  I followed the following steps   Opened the folder in finder - gt  right-click - gt  get info - gt  click on the lock on the bottom right of the pop up window  enter admin password - gt  then change the Sharing and Permissions to Read and Write for wheel  and everyone - gt  click lock again to save

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You need to ensure you are in a directory in which you have write permission  This might not be the directory in which Git is in once you open the terminal  In my case  Widows 10  I had to use the cd command to change the directory to the root directory  C   After that it worked just fine

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You should do the command in a directory where you have write permission  So   cd    mkdir code cd code git clone https   github com kivy kivy   For example

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This does happened also when you are cloning a repo without selecting any working directory  just make sure you did cd into your working directory and i believe it will work just fine

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In my case what happened was that the user I was using had no ownership over the directory  I simply had to change ownership of the directory to that user  For example if user is ubuntu   chown ubuntu ubuntu -R directory-in-question  cd directory-in-question   git clone  lt git repo comes here  gt

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If you are working in Windows you have to change the permissions of the directory putting full permissions or just write to let github clone the repository  The steps are    Go To your directory open properties go to tab  security  change the permissions apply

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All you need to do is Run your terminal as Administrator  in my case  that s how I solve my problem

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sudo chmod 777 DIR NAME cd DIR NAME git clone https   github com mygitusername kivy git   should work fine

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For other Beginners  like myself  If you are on windows running git as admin also solves the problem

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Your current directory does not has the write create permission to create kivy directory  thats why occuring this problem   Your current directory give 777 rights and try it   sudo chmod 777 DIR NAME cd DIR NAME git clone https   github com mygitusername kivy git

[github] fatal: could not create work tree dir 'kivy'

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