2015-10-12 21:36 GMT+02:00 Max Leske maxleske@gmail.com:

Hi.

Git creates it’s object files (the object database files) with permission 0444 (i.e. no write permissions). On OS X and Linux the VM is happy to delete those files but on Windows 7 the FilePlugin fails with a #primitiveFailed:.

Before I dive into the code and start fixing stuff I wanted to know if this is a known issue / unfixable problem.

Yes, I saw this already when working with git directories for the long path issue. On windows, we'll have to remove a readonly attribute if we want to delete read-only files.

Don't know how to fix this, silently in the vm if the plugin failed? Or return with an appropriate return code and give the image a chance to ask the user and then call the delete method again with a flag "do-delete-readonly-files" Or add a method to the plugin, to change the attributes and change add code in the image to provide a method that changes readonly flags for all entries prior to calling deleteAll?

Cheers, Max