I'm trying to clone my fork of the kivy git, but it's not working. I've made the fork correctly, I believe, but when I type this into my Mac terminal:
I get this error:
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'kivy.: Permission denied
Anyone see what I am doing wrong? Thanks!
You should do the command in a directory where you have write permission. So:
cd ~/ mkdir code cd code git clone https://github.com/kivy/kivy For example.
Your current directory does not has the write/create permission to create kivy directory, thats why occuring this problem.
Your current directory give 777 rights and try it.
sudo chmod 777 DIR_NAME cd DIR_NAME git clone https://github.com/mygitusername/kivy.git In my case what happened was that the user I was using had no ownership over the directory. I simply had to change ownership of the directory to that user. For example if user is ubuntu:
chown ubuntu:ubuntu -R directory-in-question cd directory-in-question/ git clone <git repo comes here > The directory in which you are trying to write the file or taking the clone of git repository, it does not has the write permission. That's why this problem is occurring.
Please change the write permission of directory.
Then clone the repository.
If you are working in Windows you have to change the permissions of the directory putting full permissions or just write to let github clone the repository. The steps are 1. Go To your directory 2)open properties 3) go to tab "security" 4) change the permissions 5) apply
For other Beginners (like myself) If you are on windows running git as admin also solves the problem.
I had the same error on Debian and all I had to do was:
sudo su and then run the command again and it worked.
This does happened also when you are cloning a repo without selecting any working directory. just make sure you did cd into your working directory and i believe it will work just fine.