Git return "Permission Denied" when trying to add files

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I recently bought a new mac, and have been cloning my repositories to it. I made a change to one of them, and tried to run git add --all, and was pretty surprised when git returned. [...] being the path to the repo locally. fatal: Unable to create '[...]/.git/index.lock': Permission denied

I pretty sure I ran git clone as the user that i'm currently logged in as.

Can someone tell me why this happened? why do i now have permission to the .git/index.lock file?

Noop. Said question was caused by a duplicate file. This was caused by incorrect permissions. — SomeNorwegianGuy
– SomeNorwegianGuy, Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 14:50

Tim Biegeleisen · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-25 14:49:24Z

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Seems I was wrong, seems I ran git clone with sudo. Removing the repository and cloning it again fixed the problem.

edited Sep 25, 2015 at 14:49

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