unsafe repository owned by someone else

[Daniel Kaminski]

Could anyone help me resolve this issue regarding unsafe repository owned by someone else?

I get the following message when opening a Visual Studio project

After running the suggested git config command --global --add safe.directory

The config file looks like the image below but the error persists.

[Philip Oakley]

There is a GitHub revocation of SSH keys at the moment - see https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/

Possibly not the same problem but when apps do their own error messages then it's easy to be confused.

[Daniel Kaminski]

Thanks, but not sure that is it since I don't use github and the issue is in my local machine.

[Mark Mikofski]

Hi Daniel,

The path looks wrong in your .gitconfig for the safe directory. I think the "mac/home/ was an example? Can you try to put the path to the folder that has your .git file in the .gitconfig file.

There are some good posts here:
* https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2023/Jan/05/Fix-that-damn-Git-Unsafe-Repository

* https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config/2.35.2#Documentation/git-config.txt-safedirectory

* https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3856

Note that if using the command line git config --global --add safe.directory "path\\to\\file\\on\\windows" then according to Issue #3856 you will need double quotes for windoes.

Cheers,

Mark

[Dale Ogilvie]

I am seeing the same issue. In my case, the problem is that git clone is creating folders and files owned by BUILTINS/Administrators instead of my user, even though I am doing the clone in an unprivileged cmd shell.

When this happens git refuses to allow manipulation of the cloned repo, as the ownership is different to the current user. Perhaps the op could verify the ownership of their cloned repo. In a powershell, the following will show ownership.

Get-Acl .  

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Dale,

that sounds like something in your setup assigns ownership to
administrators, which is not something we can handle at the time.

Can you find out what causes this (to me, unexpected) behavior?

Ciao,
Johannes

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023, Dale Ogilvie wrote:

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> I am seeing the same issue. In my case, the problem is that git clone is

> creating folders and files owned by *BUILTINS/Administrators* instead of my

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