Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Scott R Parish wrote: > "git init --shared=all" was failing because chmod was returning > EPERM. Not here. This is git version 1.5.3.rc4.1716.gc3498, and "uname -a" says Darwin michael-stirrats-mac-mini.local 8.10.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc Is it possible that you have stricter permission settings? Or that you try to re-initialise a repository that somebody else initialised originally? Ciao, Dscho - 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