fatal could not create work tree dir C Program Files Git data Permission denied

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to clone a repository using git clone command. But it is showing me the below given error.

$ git clone https://github.com/user/branchmerge.git /data
fatal: could not create work tree dir 'C:/Program Files/Git/data': Permission denied

Can anyone help me to resolve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You may get this error if your folder contains previous files. So before git clone command try to remove all the files from that folder. You can use the below-given command.

$ rm -rf *
$ git clone https://github.com/user/branchmerge.git /data

I hope this will help.