Using git / folder owned by root

Question

I decided to switch to Kubuntu from Windows.

I was setting up XAMPP which installs in /opt/lampp/.

Now I want to set up my work environment for a project I'm working on but git doesn't have permission to access root.

When I try to assign a folder (/opt/lampp/htdocs/project-sbc/) it says the following:

Git: fatal: could not create work tree dir '/opt/lampp/project-sbc':
Permission denied

How can I fix this?

Solution

The simple solution is to execute git clone command in your /home directory, in a location which is owned by you.

e.g. in a sub-folder dev-projects in your /home/username folder.

If from some reasons, the content of the git repository should be located in /opt/lampp/project-sbc then you should execute the git clone command as root, using the sudo command:

sudo git ...... (your git command)

Also as mentioned in the comment:

The user can change the owner of the folder from root to himself.

sudo chown username /opt/lampp

Follow with git command in that folder

git clone .....

Comments

[Yaron]

@user535733 Thanks for the commet!

[jtlz2]

chown: changing ownership of ‘...’: Operation not permitted

[Yaron]

@jtlz2 please add the original command you enter before you got the error