Error on container build: "Operation not permitted: '.git/hooks/pre-commit'"

Two months ago, I started with HA development and contributed to an Integration. For unrelated reasons I later had to uninstall WSL and remove the Docker volumes, images, and containers. Upon reinstalling, I am now unable to build a devcontainer, as I get the error:

An unexpected error has occurred: PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '.git/hooks/pre-commit'

Specifically, this fails on the line: pre-commit install

After a bit of searching, I saw that this error has been discussed previously and that a suggested workaround was to add sudo -E to "postCreateCommand": "git config... in devcontainer.json. I found that sudo -E had no effect but just plain sudo instead resulted in a different error:

An error has occurred: FatalError: git failed. Is it installed, and are you in a Git repository directory?

However, I am suspicious that the configuration files in my build are not at fault. I have merged the latest updates with my repo, and have also tried rolling back to the last working commit two months ago: neither has any effect.

One surprising thing is that When I run lsb_release -a from within the terminal within VS Code (presumably within that Linux container?), the output is:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:        12
Codename:       bookworm

But when I run wsl --list --verbose under Windows, the output is:

  NAME              STATE           VERSION
* Ubuntu            Running         2
  docker-desktop    Running         2

Am I accidentally running Debian instead of Ubuntu, and might that be causing the issue? If so, how is that occurring? Or is there some other reason?

Fixed it.

Cleared Docker completely, uninstalled WSL, unregistered both WSL distributions, removed the repo from my local Windows machine [sic], and carefully followed the ‘Getting started’ instructions here to begin from scratch. This time it worked as smoothly as it had a few months ago.

I suspect the problem was that I pulled the repo to Windows, then when I opened that repo in VSCode and accepted VSCode’s offer to re-open it as a devcontainer, certain file permissions were not as expected.

Lesson learnt: just follow the instructions.