On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Chad Joan <chadjoan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > What I'm experiencing is this: > > $ cd ~/project > $ ls -dl somedir > drwxrwx--- 1 cjoan cjoan 0 Feb 28 19:57 somedir > $ echo "some text" > somedir/somefile.txt > $ git add somedir/somefile.txt > $ git rm -f somedir/somefile.txt > rm 'somedir/somefile.txt' > $ ls -dl somedir > drw------- 1 cjoan cjoan 0 Feb 28 19:57 somedir > $ echo "some text" > somedir/somefile.txt > bash: somedir/somefile.txt: Permission denied After you remove the file, is "somedir" empty? Git doesn't track empty directories, and therefore git rm on the last file in a directory deletes it: % git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cdruid/testrepo/.git/ % mkdir dir % ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 cdruid cdruid 4096 Feb 28 21:14 dir % touch dir/test.txt % git add dir/test.txt % git rm -f dir/test.txt rm 'dir/test.txt' % ls -l total 0 My guess is git is somehow failing to delete the directory, thus causing your changed permissions issue. -Dan Johnson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html