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From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows10 with MSYS2 shell: Can't erase directories from Emacs' git repo tree
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:08:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7ciaioe.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ee7p2f5d.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (H. Dieter Wilhelm's message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:27:42 +0100")


"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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-11 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-09 21:27 Windows10 with MSYS2 shell: Can't erase directories from Emacs' git repo tree H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-10  3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-11 22:19   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-11 22:34     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-12  6:55       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-11 14:08 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2021-11-12  6:50   ` Windows10 VM installation: " H. Dieter Wilhelm

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