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

You don't have the access permission, maybe because you are not the owner.

Fix by changing the owner to yourself:

sudo chown -R your_login_name /path/to/folder

Answer 2

To those who are using Intellij, as @rtconner said this problem is not caused by git. Since your IDE is locked a file(s) git cannot un-link it. So, you need to close your IDE and then try to merge (or whatever you like) it via command line.