Operation not permitted error when opening newly cloned repo

[ZevEisenberg]

I forked and cloned a repo, and when I tried to open it in Fork, I got an error in Fork. I've attached a zip of the repo and some hopefully helpful Terminal output. I'm on Fork 2.60.1 and macOS 26.1 (25B78).

Unexpected error:
open git config at '/Users/zev/Downloads/TextViewBenchmark/.git/config'
Operation not permitted (os error 1)

Please contact Fork support

bash-3.2$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/main' by 4 commits.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
	modified:   TextViewBenchmark.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
	modified:   TextViewBenchmark.xcodeproj/xcshareddata/xcschemes/TextViewBenchmark.xcscheme

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
bash-3.2$ cd .git
bash-3.2$ ls -la
total 48
drwxr-xr-x  13 zev  staff   416 Nov 30 10:23 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 zev  staff   320 Nov 30 09:26 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 zev  staff    32 Nov 30 09:28 COMMIT_EDITMSG
-rw-r--r--   1 zev  staff   371 Nov 30 09:25 config
-rw-r--r--   1 zev  staff    73 Nov 30 09:25 description
-rw-r--r--   1 zev  staff    21 Nov 30 09:25 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x  16 zev  staff   512 Nov 30 09:25 hooks
-rw-r--r--   1 zev  staff  2569 Nov 30 09:28 index
drwxr-xr-x   3 zev  staff    96 Nov 30 09:25 info
drwxr-xr-x   4 zev  staff   128 Nov 30 09:25 logs
drwxr-xr-x  23 zev  staff   736 Nov 30 09:28 objects
-rw-r--r--   1 zev  staff   112 Nov 30 09:25 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x   5 zev  staff   160 Nov 30 09:25 refs

TextViewBenchmark.zip

[DanPristupov]

I opened it without a problem.

• Check the file access rights.
• Try to unzip the archive to a new directory. Can you open it?

[DanPristupov]

Did you deny Fork the access to the 'Downloads' folder?

[DanPristupov]

Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Files and Folders -> Fork -> Downloads folder

[ZevEisenberg]

All I see is this:

Weird thing:

I tried again, and got the same error. Then I unzipped my zip file to the Desktop, and opened it in Fork, and it opened fine. Then I closed the tab and opened it again, and that time, Fork crashed. Then I tried again, and now both folders are working, both in Desktop and in Downloads!

Here's the crash. I don't know if you want to close this issue or leave it open for further investigation.

Fork-2025-11-30-104257.ips.zip

[DanPristupov]

Thanks for reporting the bug. I think it's a random crash and can't be reproduced. If it happens again, please let me know.