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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Windows with_rw-directory TC helper fails to delete repos","articleBody":"On Windows, `os.rmtree` cannot not remove directories with read-only files; such are the git db directories.\n\nThe fix is something like this:\n\n``` python\n           ...\n        finally:\n            # Need to collect here to be sure all handles have been closed. It appears\n            # a windows-only issue. In fact things should be deleted, as well as\n            # memory maps closed, once objects go out of scope. For some reason\n            # though this is not the case here unless we collect explicitly.\n            if not keep:\n                gc.collect()\n\n                # From http://stackoverflow.com/a/4829285/548792\n                def on_rm_error(func, path, exc_info):\n                    import stat\n                    os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWRITE)\n                    func(path)\n\n                shutil.rmtree(path, onerror=on_rm_error)\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ankostis","@type":"Person","name":"ankostis"},"datePublished":"2016-09-27T19:54:39.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/32/gitdb/issues/32"}