Git push error Unable to unlink old Permission denied

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In the remote server I have a post-receive hook set up in order to make a git checkout of my repository      bin sh GIT WORK TREE  var www  lt website gt  git checkout -f   But when I make a push from my local machine to the git repository in the server  I get the following error messages   remote  error  unable to unlink old   lt file gt    Permission denied    This appears many times over  one error message for almost every file   However I have a README txt file that I m able to change using git  here are its permissions   -rw-r--r--  1  lt serverusername gt    lt serverusername gt   2939 Aug  2 10 58 README txt   But other files with exactly the same owner and same permissions  give me that error   In another local repository for another website  I have the files with my local machine username as owner  and when I push to the remote server it respects the remote server owner of the files and works like a charm   Obviously it seems a permissions related error  but I can t find a way to fix it  any suggestions

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Some files are write-protected that even git cannot over write it  Change the folder permission to allow writing e g  sudo chmod 775 foldername And then execute git pull   again

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I think the problem may be with the ownership to the folder so set it to the current user ownership  sudo chown -R your login name  path to folder  You can find the solution  here  1

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This is an old question  but this may help Mac users   If you are copying files from Time Machine manually  instead of restoring them through Time Machine  it ll add ACLs to everything  which can mess up your permissions   For example  the section in this article that says  How to Fix Mac OS X File Permissions  shows that  everyone  has custom permissions  which messes it all up     You need to remove the ACLs from those directories files  This Super User answer goes into it  but here s the command   sudo chmod -RN    Then you can make sure your directories and files have the proper permissions  I use 750 for directories and 644 for files

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If you are using any IDE most likely the problem is that file was used by some process  Like your tomcat might be using the file  Try to identify that particular process and close it  That should solve your problem

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Pulling may have created local change   Add your untracked file      git add     Stash changes      git stash   Drop local changes      git stash drop   Pull with sudo permission     sudo git pull remote branch

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Also remember to check permission of root directory itself   You may find   drwxr-xr-x  9 not-you www-data  4096 Aug  8 16 36    -rw-r--r--  1     you www-data  3012 Aug  8 16 36 README txt -rw-r--r--  1     you www-data  3012 Aug  8 16 36 UPDATE txt   and  permission denied  error will pop up

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I get this error  and other strange git errors  when I have a server running  in Intellij    Stopping the server and re-trying the git command frequently fixes it for me

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When you have to unlink file  you have to have permission  w  for directory  in which file is  not for the file

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After checking the permission of the folder  it is okay with 744  I had the problem with a plugin that is installed on my WordPress site  The plugin has hooked that are in the corn job I suspected  With a simple sudo it can fix the issue sudo git pull origin master  You have it working

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FWIW - I had a similar problem and I m not sure if this alleviated it  beyond the permission mod    Closing Eclipse that was using the branch with this problem

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I had the same issue and none of the solutions above worked for me  I deleted the offending folder  Then    git reset --hard   Deleted any lingering files to clean up the git status  then did   git pull   It finally worked   NOTE  If the folder was  for instance  a public folder with build files  remember to rebuild the files

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git reset --hard   Worked for me

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sudo chmod -R ug w      This command would fix the issue  It gives write permissions to the folder

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sudo chown -R  USER  USER     Did the job for me

[git] Git push error: Unable to unlink old (Permission denied)

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