I have been having trouble with this error message and I don't understand the proper solution to fix it or go about debugging it. I have googled the error in various forms but no real solution has presented itself. I am assuming it's an issue with permissions but I don't really know how to check or what I should check for.
I have a server running Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm basically trying to make the initial commit to my git repo from my development machine. I'm running as root. Should I be running as the user?
Repo creation on server:
$ cd /home/username/git
$ mkdir myrepo.git
$ cd myrepo.git/
$ git --bare init
Repo creation on development machine:
Goto rails project directory first
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "initial commit"
$ bundle pack
$ git add Gemfile.lock vendor/cache
$ git commit -m "bundle gems"
$ git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]/home/username/git/myrepo.git
$ git push origin master
Error:
fatal: Unable to create temporary file '/home/username/git/myrepo.git/./objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX': Permission denied
error: pack-objects died of signal 13
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://[email protected]/home/username/git/myrepo.git'
My .git/config file:
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
url = ssh://[email protected]/home/username/git/myrepo.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
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Thanks to Don Branson,I solve my problem.I think next time i should use this code when i build my repo on server:
root@localhost:~#mkdir foldername
root@localhost:~#cd foldername
root@localhost:~#git init --bare
root@localhost:~#cd ../
root@localhost:~#chown -R usergroup:username foldername
And on client,i user this
$ git remote add origin git@servername:/var/git/foldername
$ git push origin master
It would seem like your user doesn't have permission to write to that directory on the server. Please make sure that the permissions are correct. The user will need write permissions on that directory.
Just try to do this one (through root access) - "chmod -R 777 /home/username/git"
Ok, I figured it out. The issue was that I didn't have the correct permissions set for myrepo.git and the parent directory git.
As root I logged into the server and used:
$ chown username /home/username/git
This then returns drwxrwxr-x 4 username root 4096 2012-10-30 15:51 /home/username/git with the following:
$ ls -ld /home/username/git
I then make a new directory for myrepo.git inside git:
$ mkdir myrepo.git
$ ls -ld myrepo.git/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-10-30 18:41 myrepo.git/
but it has the user set to root, so I change it to username the same way as before.
$ chown username myrepo.git/
$ ls -ld myrepo.git/
drwxr-xr-x 2 username root 4096 2012-10-30 18:41 myrepo.git/
I then sign out of root and sign into server as username:
Inside git directory:
$ cd myrepo.git/
$ git --bare init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/username/git/myrepo.git/
On local machine:
$ git remote add origin
ssh://[email protected]/home/username/git/myrepo.git
$ git push origin master
SUCCESS!
Hopefully this comes in handy for anyone else that runs into the same issue in the future!
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A possibility is that the git server you are pushing to is down/crashed, and the solution lies in restarting the git server.
One of the principal issues with pushing to a GIT is that the material you push will appear as your material, and will block submissions from other people on a team. As a GIT repository administrator, you will have to manage the hooks to prevent Alice's push from blocking Bob from pushing. To do that, you will want to ensure that your developers all belong to a group, lets call it 'developers' and that the repository is owned by root:developers, and then add this to the hooks/post-update script:
sudo chown -R root:developers $GIT_DIR
sudo chmod -R g+w $GIT_DIR
That will make it so that team members are able to push to the repository without stepping on each other's toes.
I resolved it by giving permission to the user on each of the directories that you're using, like so:
sudo chown user /home/user/git
and so on.
Source: Stackoverflow.com