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

You should do the command in a directory where you have write permission. So:

cd ~/
mkdir code
cd code
git clone https://github.com/kivy/kivy

For example.

Answer 2

In my case what happened was that the user I was using had no ownership over the directory. I simply had to change ownership of the directory to that user. For example if user is ubuntu:

chown ubuntu:ubuntu -R directory-in-question

cd directory-in-question/

git clone <git repo comes here >

Answer 3

For other Beginners (like myself) If you are on windows running git as admin also solves the problem.

Answer 4

If you are working in Windows you have to change the permissions of the directory putting full permissions or just write to let github clone the repository. The steps are:

1. Go To your directory
2. open properties
3. go to tab "security"
4. change the permissions
5. apply

Answer 5

You need to ensure you are in a directory in which you have write permission. This might not be the directory in which Git is in once you open the terminal. In my case (Widows 10) I had to use the cd command to change the directory to the root directory (C:) After that it worked just fine.

Answer 6

Assuming that you are using Windows, run the application as Admin.

For that, you have at least two options:

• Open the file location, right click and select "Run as Administrator".

• Using Windows Start menu, search for "Git Bash", and you will find the following:

Then, just press "Run as Administrator".