Please describe the problem.
Installing on Windows requires installing git followed by git-annex. Installing the former works without admin rights, but the latter cannot be installed afterwards.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
- Create a Windows account without admin rights
- Install git
- Install git-annex
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
Latest release on MS Windows.
Please provide any additional information below.
Installing git creates read-only directories that cannot be used by the git-annex install afterwards. Without admin rights, the read-only flag of the git dir cannot be altered.
Thanks, this had been reported in the forum before, but they did not point at the directory permissions as the problem.
It would be possible to modify the installer to install git-annex somewhere else and add it to the PATH, but it seems this is a utter nightmare on windows and I'd have to pull in enormous NSIS scripts from their wiki, of unknown provenance. Which is why I am piggybacking on the git installation's PATH.