On my Gentoo changing the ownership was not sufficient. After changing the ownership I had to
git reset --hard HEAD which revealed that Updating f894105d0d..b36eca1990 error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: To correct this: git clean -f build/pkgs/barvinok/ git clean -f build/pkgs/isl/ git clean -f build/pkgs/lcalc/patches/ git clean -f build/pkgs/polylib/ and now 'git pull' is up to date. This is all very strange. On Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 9:41:58 PM UTC-6, Samuel Lelievre wrote: > > > As far as I can recall 'git pull' was always done as a normal user. > > Note the timestamp on the folders, which predates 8.5.beta4. > > And this issue did not manifest itself then. But going forward, > > how to correct things? > > Change to your SAGE_ROOT directory and run this as a normal user > > $ sudo chown -v -R $(id -u):$(id -g) . > > to set the owner and group of SAGE_ROOT (and recursively all > the included files and directories) to your user and your group. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.