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git/config`, so let's see what happens if I try to use `git config` to modify that file: ---- git config Or maybe chmod is broken, like it is on my machine: $ touch x $ chmod 777 x chmod: changing permissions of âxâ: Invalid argument > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Or maybe chmod is broken, like it is on my machine: $ touch x $ chmod 777 x chmod: changing permissions of ‘x’: Invalid argument > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 9:53 AM > From: I have just tried using "find -exec" command on a Cygwin system (UNIX emulated on Windows), and there it seems that the backslash before the >> Or maybe chmod is broken, like it is on my machine: >> $ chmod 777 x >> chmod: changing permissions of âxâ: Invalid argument > Can you please send the icacls output of the current The setup of the ACL may give us a hint why git apparently > > fails to create the bar subdir. gitconfig failed: Invalid argument For me this was solved by running my git commands as admin. com/problems. sh under From: "Rainer Blome" <rainer dot blome at gmx dot de> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:44:27 +0100 Subject: chmod failed: Invalid argument [was: git clone fails with: $ git init fatal: unable to access 'C:\Users?ikeh/. I can't identify the > exact date. de Thu Jan 28 17:23:00 GMT 2016 Previous message (by thread): chmod failed: Invalid argument Next message (by thread): chmod failed: Invalid From: Rainer Blome <rainer dot blome at gmx dot de> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:59:31 +0100 Subject: Re: chmod failed: Invalid argument Authentication 99 I'm using Cygwin in the Win8CP, and I had the same issue. png and saved it as tp2. config/git/config': Invalid argument (. On As for the original problem - seems that in the meantime, it This doesn't exactly answer the question of how to make chmod work on MinGW (it won't), but it does get the right permission bits to show in ls output and enables autocomplete What does that mean and what can I do to make CygWin's chmod work ? sick of this one. Sounds like a mechanism to protect `. The command line could be found in official doc from Microsoft, like here. P. venv) When using PyCharm or the Windows Command Center the response is what you I also got this error: fstat on H://. It's definitely a Cygwin bug, but there's a workaround: try running: chgrp -R Users ~/. > > > Or maybe chmod is broken, like it is on my machine: > > $ touch x > $ chmod 777 x > chmod: On Apr 19 13:20, Tomas Jura wrote: > Hi > > My passwd and groups files got automatically renamed. lock Rainer Blome rainer. blome@gmx. ssh The longer I wrote the following shell script #!/bin/bash dot -Tpng tp2. Note that the chmod The "chmod: changing permissions of invalid argument" error typically indicates that there is an issue with the file or directory you are attempting to modify permissions for. Or just rebuild your password file. Search the list. The best way to solve the issue is to use icacls to change permissions. Then I ran chmod u+x tp2. You won't be able to change the Git warning: unable to access 'P:\/. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed Using Cygwin in Windows 10, chmod 600 does not work as expected? Ask Question Asked 5 years, 6 months ago Modified 5 years, 6 months ago. It's "Cygwin" >I checked that 本文记录了一次在Cygwin环境下遇到的chmod命令出现Invalid argument错误的问题及解决过程。 作者尝试了多种方法后发现，保持默认用户权限设置不变的情况下，问题得以 The problem appears when Git tries to `chmod config. dot -o tp2. lock`. html And please 5 In Cygwin, it's not possible to change group permissions unless the group is Users or Root. S. git/config`, so let's see what happens if I try to use `git config` to modify that file: ---- git config When I rename the file and open a new Cygwin terminal, things start to work. Last update of cygwin I did yesterday, but the Previous message (by thread): chmod failed: Invalid argument Next message (by thread): installation hangs Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] More information > $ touch x > $ chmod 777 x > chmod: changing permissions of ‘x’: Invalid argument Please provide details according to > Problem reports: http://cygwin. sh. gitconfig': Invalid argument Asked 12 years, 10 months ago Modified 2 years, 9 months ago Viewed 53k times From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:30:34 -0500 Subject: Re: git clone fails with: error: chmod on config. Refer to 'chmod' cannot change group permission on Cygwin. Here Consequently chmod can only affect the "w" mode, it silently ignores actions involving the other modes. `strace echo` yields the expected output, `chmod` does what it's supposed to do, and `git The problem appears when Git tries to `chmod config. This means that ls -l needs to open and read files. It can thus be relatively slow.
