How to git clone in wsl?

Question

I try to clone a repo from a brand new Windows Install with wsl (Ubuntu 20.04). What I did : generate SSH key and add public key to both github and framagit. Tried

ssh -i -T [email protected]

And

ssh -i -T [email protected]

Both of them saied "Hello my pseudo, you're authentified"

But when I try to clone I have the following : Without sudo :

Cloning into 'testaaa'...
error: chmod on /mnt/d/dev/dev/testaaa/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'

With sudo :

Cloning into 'testaaa'...
ssh: connect to host framagit.org port 22: Network is unreachable
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

What can I do to solve my issue?

Answer 1

You can fix this by following this guide. Summary below.

From a WSL prompt:

sudo vim /etc/wsl.conf

Add these lines:

[automount]
options = "metadata"

Save the file, shutdown wsl from a PowerShell prompt:

wsl --shutdown

Re-open a wsl terminal. You should see files owned by your user now instead of root. You can now git clone, chmod, chown etc.