[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 2""" date="2021-02-24T17:13:43Z" content=""" Does this only happen when the directory is on the network share, or also on a local disk? Does the .git/hooks directory exist? What happens if you mkdir that directory and then re-run git-annex init? This does not seem to happen on windows generally, and git-annex creates the directory if it does not exist, so failing this way is surprising. """]]