git-merge-permission-denied-windows.md

Often when I try to merge a branch with Git on Windows, I get Permission denied errors. I am not sure what is the cause but cleaning up and trying to the merge again works.

Steps

> git merge develop
error: unable to create file public/less/bootstrap/dropdowns.less (Permission denied)

This will leave a bunch of files in your unstaged area 👎

Run the following Git commands to reset back before the merge to get rid of the files in the staging area

> git reset --hard origin/feature/something
> git clean -fd

Now the merge will work 😕

> git merge develop

I follow yours steps, it´s works, I just have to deal with the mess around the conflict with the files.

I found when I have Atom open, when I close it and try to merge it works. So it can be an issue relating to Atom editor

@stevenYouhana, the same, thanks for advice.

same with sublimetext

I found when I have Atom open, when I close it and try to merge it works. So it can be an issue relating to Atom editor

Thank you ! @stevenYouhana

It worked well, Thank you!

Same with Windows 10 + VSCode + Bash terminal, I want to end this forever, not go through this everytime.