How to delete a file using git command line interface when it says permission denied on deleting?

Question

I am learning git from a youtube tutorial, I am unable to delete a file. When I am giving this command, where names.txt is file name, I see this:

$ rm -rf names.txt
rm: cannot remove 'names.txt': Permission denied"

samiksha@Kitty MINGW64 ~/Desktop/gitt (master)
$ git add .
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in names.txt.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

samiksha@Kitty MINGW64 ~/Desktop/gitt (master)
$ git commit -m "adding new files"
[master f1f061e] adding new files
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

samiksha@Kitty MINGW64 ~/Desktop/gitt (master)
$ git log
commit f1f061eafb856a25ae5521482cee25f5e7ff1aeb (HEAD -> master)
Author: Mi-kio <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Feb 18 14:59:04 2022 +0530


    adding new files

commit bc5b891ef1476ecfbbde57d1f96063c75f58b0c8
Author: Mi-kio <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Feb 18 14:41:05 2022 +0530

    adding files

samiksha@Kitty MINGW64 ~/Desktop/gitt (master)
$ rm -rf names.txt
rm: cannot remove 'names.txt': Permission denied

The content of my names.txt is

akshi 
SAmiksha
Navanshi 
ANshuka
mansi
shuchi
anvi anaya

I am not able to delete it or any other file also in which I have not added any content.

Answer 1

Run this on the gitt (master) directory:

samiksha@Kitty$ chmod 777 gitt

Then you can run the

$ rm -rf names.txt

This should give you the permission to modify any file in the whole directory.