git issue: 3 (were 2367) changed files

Stream: general

[Eric Rodriguez]

Damiano, sorry for pushing, but I thought I'd give it a shot on another computer and it worked. I'm not sure what happened in yours, but I was able to just:

$ chmod -x yaml_check.py
$ chmod -x detect_errors.py
$ git commit -am "fix mode"
$ git push

and it worked fine. I wonder if your git version is different to mine? I am on 2.34.1

[Damiano Testa]

Eric, thank you so much! I am on 1.8.3.1, VSCode complains that it is old, but since the computer is university-managed, I cannot update Git myself...

[Julian Berman]

If it helps, you presumably could just download newer git (e.g from https://git-scm.com/downloads) and put it in ~/.local/bin, earlier on your path, and ignore the old one installed system wide

[Damiano Testa]

Would I need root access for this? I do not have it on this machine.

[Huỳnh Trần Khanh]

no

[Julian Berman]

You do not yeah -- you can put whatever programs you want locally in your own user's directories (let me/us know if you want more details on how obviously. The only tricky bit might be double checking where you put them is before the systemwide directories on your shell PATH)

[Damiano Testa]

I'll ask you details in private, thanks! (Of course, feel free to tell me that you cannot help me!)

[Eric Wieser]

I doubt updating git is relevant here

[Eric Wieser]

It sounds like you have a weird filesystem that was interfering - you can tell git to ignore local filesystem permissions in a config file somewhere if that's the case

[Julian Berman]

(Agreed by the way, I mentioned it mostly to make whatever VSCode complains about go away)

[Eric Wieser]

I guess getting the last 8 years of changes to git is probably a good idea anyway!