Git Checkout warning: unable to unlink files, permission denied

Question

I am aware that there are similar issues about git relating to the \'unable to unlink\' warning, but I have not been able to use them.

The main difference is that th

Answer 1

I had this error inside a virtual machine (running Ubuntu), when I tried to do git reset --hard.

The fix was simply to run git reset --hard from the OS X host machine instead.