Dhananjay Kumar

Unable to index file: Permission Denied error in git add command

While working on an application, I had to commit changes to local Git Repository. It was usual task and I started with following command,

git add –A

To surprise git add command gave me error as shown in image below. Error message was clear that to a particular file there was Permission denied.

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Note: I was working on a MVC application which had local database attached. Name of database was MoviesRTM.mdf.

I tried to commit using Visual Studio 2013 as well. Here also I got same error as shown in image below,

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This can be solved by two ways either shutting down IIS Express or restarting Visual Studio. I was using IIS Express to host MVC application. You can shut down IIS Express by right click on IIS Express and click on Exit from context menu.

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If this option is not working then try restarting Visual Studio.

Note: Restarting Visual Studio or Shutting down IIS Express may worked in this scenario because permission denies error was on a database file (extension mdf). And database was locally created.

After shutting down I was able to run git add command successfully.

Happy coding.

Dhananjay Kumar | Angular Teacher | Angular Consultant | ng-India

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3 responses to “Unable to index file: Permission Denied error in git add command”

  1. Ammar Shaukat

    Thank you very much , your solution is working for me.

  2. Maga Sganga

    I was working on a Unity project and had the same error. I closed Unity and tried to commit and it worked!
    Thanks!

  3. DM

    Restart Visual Studio worked for me, thanks.

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