Trying to git pull with error cannot open git FETCH HEAD Permission denied

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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

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if you find the same problem in windows server  then you need to run the command line with enough permission  such as administrator permission

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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

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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    finds out which group owns  git  and adds your user to that group  makes sure group members have the same permissions as the owner for  git    repeats this for  gitignore  which you ll probably need logs you out and back in to refresh your group membership file permissions   If 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

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This issue arises when you don t give sufficient permissions to  git folder  To solve this problem-   First navigate to your working directory  Enter this command-     sudo chmod a rw  git -R    Hope it helps

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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

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In my case work that  I just wrote sudo before the command   sudo npm run deploy

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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

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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

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In my case      sudo chmod ug wx  git -R   this command works

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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

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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

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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

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This will resolve all permissions in folder  sudo chown -R   whoami

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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

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Simply go to your root folder and run this command   chmod a rw  git FETCH HEAD

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I had this message when using git extensions for windows  My fix was to simply close git extensions then open again as administrator

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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

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It seems like the first one isn t working because your user doesn t have the permissions for changing that directory  and the second because your root user doesn t have the right SSH keys for accessing that git repository   Depending on what you re trying to do  it might be better to clone the repository to a different directory  or maybe chown the current directory to have full access for your user

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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

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Set permission to your current user by running the command    sudo chown -R  lt username gt   git

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Error  cannot open  git FETCH HEAD  Permission denied This work for me   By default  git folder is hidden  Unhide  git folder and its child folders and file and try to pull request

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for MacOS user  if High Sierra or higher version  use this   sudo chown -R   whoami    brew --prefix

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This worked for me    Right click  git folder click get info set permission to your user click the Cog icon and click apply to enclosed items   No more permission denied errors in git

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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

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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

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In my case work fine after it   rm -f  git FETCH HEAD  git branch -u

[git] Trying to git pull with error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

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