Git init: fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'

Question

Using Team City to check out from a Git Repo. (Gitlabs if it matters)

Start with Empty build directory. Get this error:

fatal: could not set \'core.filemode

Answer 1

In my case using "sudo" worked for me. For example:

asif@asif-vm:/mnt/prog/protobuf_tut$ git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
Cloning into 'protobuf'...
error: chmod on /mnt/prog/protobuf_tut/protobuf/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'

After doing a "sudo" I could get it working:

asif@asif-vm:/mnt/prog/protobuf_tut$ sudo git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
Cloning into 'protobuf'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 66782 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 66777
Receiving objects: 100% (66782/66782), 55.83 MiB | 2.04 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (45472/45472), done.
Checking out files: 100% (2221/2221), done.