fatal: could not create work tree dir 'kivy'

Question

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:

Answer 1

If you are working on a mac, then this is probably because you don't have permission to write to the directory. When I had this issue, I followed the following steps:

• Opened the folder in finder -> right-click -> get info -> click on the lock on the bottom right of the pop up window, enter admin password -> then change the Sharing and Permissions to Read and Write for wheel, and everyone -> click lock again to save