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Re: Windows10 with MSYS2 shell: Can't erase directories from Emacs' git
From: |
Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Windows10 with MSYS2 shell: Can't erase directories from Emacs' git repo tree |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:08:49 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
> Hello
>
> I created a git clone of the sources, added some worktrees, changed the
> contents of one file. And decided to start anew but now I can't delete
> all folders of the repo, Windows says I would need admin rights to
> remove the remaining folders! (The files in the tree are gone but not
> all folders.) When I'm looking at the properties of the remaining
> folders it says they are all write protected and nobody is allowed to
> remove the folders! It seems the only thing I can do it to rename these
> folders.
>
> Is this a known problem with Windows10?
I've only ever built Emacs as admin user (I use a bespoke single purpose
VM, so it's fine), so I have never seen this problem, but wouldn't have.
Phil