"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Sometimes I clone a repo just to grep for an error string and then I don't >> need it anymore, or I clone several repos until I find the one that contains >> what I want and delete the rest. Sometimes I want to write a patch for some >> software I don't develop regularly so I don't need to keep a clone of it. >> >> In any case, it would be useful to know the reason those files are read-only in >> the first place. Do you guys know who might know? > > Why don't you wrap your clone in a script that calls chmod -R u+w > .git after the clone? This seems like a pretty trivial approach > regardless of your workflow. This works in Linux, Mac, Windows > (under cygwin-bash) and anything else POSIX-ish. But on anything POSIX-ish, is it a problem for some files (but not any directory) in .git is made read-only?
