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Git permission downloads

If you clone a git repo into /mnt/c, then you will get 777 permissions on everything.

SourceTree access to a folder under WSL

SourceTree will complain with:

git log failed with code 128 detected dubious ownership ...

And then a command for getting the specific directory and marking it as safe.

Here's the fix, run this in SourceTree's Terminal (aka git_bash.exe) on the Windows side, not WSL.

git config --global safe.directory '*'

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73485958/how-to-correct-git-reporting-detected-dubious-ownership-in-repository-withou

Git shows everything has changes in VSCode

Install the WSL extension in VSCode, relaunch the folder appropriately, and done. No more weird git diffs.

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