Help me please, I am trying to run this in my terminal:
asgard@asgard-A7N8X2-0:~/CollegePortal$ git pull
error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied
Then I try this one
asgard@asgard-A7N8X2-0:~/CollegePortal$ sudo git pull
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Help me, I don't understand this problem.
In my case work fine after it:
rm -f .git/FETCH_HEAD
git branch -u
Look at the owner and group of .git
directory with (first go to parent directory of .git) ll .git
, look at the group and owner of the directory,
add your user to group of of the owner with sudo usermod -a -G yourusername groupsofonwner
, then logout => login and everything getting work.
So in summeries
go to parent directory of git
$cd your path
find group owner of the .git
direcotry
$ll .git
add your user to that group
$usermod -a -G yourusername ownergroupofgit
Logout and login to system to this change take effect.
Enjoy it ;)
I had the exact same error but in my case, the problem was the result of having rebuilt Apache after an upgrade to the PHP version. Long story short, I forgot to install the Apache module 'suexec'.
It had nothing to do with group or ownership. That only took me two days to figure out, someone shoot me...
Simply go to your root folder and run this command:
chmod a+rw .git/FETCH_HEAD
In my case work that: I just wrote sudo
before the command :
sudo npm run deploy
if you find the same problem in windows server, then you need to run the command line with enough permission, such as administrator permission.
Running Windows 7, when I had this issue it was because I had hidden the .git folder. The permissions were fine, it was just hidden. Showing the folder resolved it.
I got this because I had more than 1 user account on my box. I was logged in as user A and was in a directory for user B. User A didn't have permission to user B's stuff. Once I realized I wasn't where I thought I was in the file system, this error made sense.
If you want to give the permission to the group,
sudo chmod g+w .git -R
worked best for me.
For MacOS
sudo chmod -R g+w .git
Reasons of this error could be multiples but in my case i updated branch with root then when i tried to update it with normal user it gives me error .
try both solutions one should work for you
1- sudo chmod g+w .git -R
if it doesn't work please try next solution hope it will solve your problem
2 - rm -f .git/FETCH_HEAD
Set permission to your current user by running the command
$ sudo chown -R <username> .git/
No more permission denied errors in git.
This is a UNIX permission problem. Do not use sudo
for cloning the repository. You don't have the same ssh keys as root and you shouldn't work as root anyway. Try ls -la
to find the permissions on the files and use chmod
(or sudo chown
) to fix them. Hope that helps.
Error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied
This work for me:
If you haven't added yourself to the group that owns .git/
, then you should.
sudo usermod -a -G $(stat -c '%G' .git) $USER
sudo chmod g+u .git -R
sudo chmod g+u .gitignore
su - $USER
What this does:
.git/
and adds your user to that group..git/
. .gitignore
, which you'll probably needIf you just recently did something like this (added yourself to the group that owns .git/
), then you need to log out and back in before you'll be able to write to .git/FETCH_HEAD
during your git pull
.
The answer to this issue make sure .git/FETCH_HEAD has write privileges and you will be all set.
I had this issue on Windows and it was resolved by giving write permissions.
In unix one can run chmod a+rw .git/FETCH_HEAD
from the project repository after which it should work.
In my case, I only had read access to the .git/FETCH_HEAD file. I had to do "sudo chmod g+w .git/FETCH_HEAD" in order to be able to do a pull request.
Check if you have enough permissions on the .git/
directory. You should have write permissions. You can set them with the following command.
Go to your project folder:
chown -R youruser:yourgroup .git/
I had this message when using git extensions for windows. My fix was to simply close git extensions then open again as administrator
In my case,
sudo chmod ug+wx .git -R
this command works.
In my case I had a dual-boot system (Windows 10 and Linux) with project folder on NTFS disk. It turned out that on another update Windows 10 enabled by itself "fast startup" in its settings. After I've unchecked it in the Windows - the "error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied" in Linux was gone.
I was having the first issue (FETCH_HEAD permission denied) on Windows.
I fixed it by running Git Bash as an administrator (right click, run as administrator).
This issue arises when you don't give sufficient permissions to .git folder. To solve this problem-
Enter this command-
sudo chmod a+rw .git -R
Hope it helps..!!
Many Answers here, many suggesting doing a chown.
For me was much easier to change user to the user owning the folder (in my case tomcat) as the owner was allowed to write:
sudo su tomcat
and than do a
git pull
no need to change permissions. I prefere this because I do not have to remember to change permission back after I am done.
To find the user owning the folder do a ls -la
Note: Do not give non-sudo write access to folders that are served!
for MacOS user (if High Sierra or higher version) use this:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
Got that issue when .git folder is hidden and all files in it is hidden too. Make only .git folder hidden without recursive files update and it will work.
This will resolve all permissions in folder
sudo chown -R $(whoami) ./
TL;DR: In Dual Boot systems, turn off Fast Startup for Windows
I was having this issue in my dual boot Ubuntu/Windows system. I couldn't write anything in any of the partitions that are shared with Windows (NTFS partitions).
I recently reinstalled both and forgot to turn of the "Fast Startup" in Windows. Everything went back to normal after I rebooted in windows and turned that feature off and restarted again.
Try like this way,
Step 1: First check who you are? it will return current user name e.g ubuntu
$ whoami
Step 2: Then set permission to your current user, in that case, ubuntu by
sudo chown -R ubuntu .git/
Source: Stackoverflow.com