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Dmitri N.
Dmitri N.

Reputation: 23

cygwin cannot exec 'git-add--interactive' permission denied

I am using Cygwin on Windows 8. I've installed git version 2.1.4 through the Cygwin installer. When I run $ git add -i I get a fatal: cannot exec 'git-add--interactive': Permission denied

I've chmoded the file that I would like to add as well as the folder containing the file, and even /usr/libexec/git-core and git-add--interactive to 755. I've also chgrped the group from None to Users in both folder, as well both the file and git-add--interactive. It's really bugging me because I do not have the same problem on MsysGit. Any ideas/suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 302

Answers (2)

Marty Neal
Marty Neal

Reputation: 9523

This happened for me too. After lots of digging, I found that /bin/cygperll5_14.dll was missing. Using cygwin's setup.exe, I Reinstalled perl and perl_base. Then everything started working.

Isn't that obvious? ;-)

Upvotes: 2

Amol
Amol

Reputation: 56

Try git add . -- it will add all the files and subdirectories in current folder Hope it works.

Upvotes: 0

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