Git Push Error insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database

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When I try to push to a shared git remote  I get the following error  insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database  Then I read about a fix here  Fix  This worked for the next push  since all of the files were of the correct group  but the next time someone pushed up a change it made a new item in the objects folder that had their default group as the group  The only thing I can think of is to change all of the developer s default group for items they check in  but that seems like a hack   Any ideas  Thanks

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Solved for me    just this   sudo chmod 777 -R  git objects

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I hit this same issue  Reading around here I realised it was file permissions the message was referring to  The fix   for me  was in    etc inetd d git-gpv  It was starting git-daemon as user  nobody  so lacked the write permission     Who   When    What   GPV   20Nov13 Created this by hand while reading  http   linuxclues blogspot co uk 2013 06 gt  git-daemon-ssh-create-repository-debian html   GPV   20Nov13 Changed owner  to user git  otherise nobody lack permission to update the repository  git stream tcp nowait nobody   usr bin git git daemon --inetd --verbose --enable receive-pack --export-all  gitrepo git stream tcp nowait user git   usr bin git git daemon --inetd --verbose --enable receive-pack --export-all  gitrepo    I doubt other call their inetd conf file git-gpv   Commonly it would be directly in  etc inetd conf

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For my case none of the suggestions worked  I m on Windows and this worked for me    Copy the remote repo into another folder Share the folder and give appropriate permissions  Make sure you can access the folder from your local machine   Add this repo as another remote repo in your local repo   git remote add foo   SERVERNAME path to copied git  Push to foo  git push foo master  Did it worked  Great  Now delete not-working repo and rename this into whatever it was before  Make sure permissions and share property remains the same

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sudo chmod -R ug w     Basically   git objects file does not have write permissions  The above line grants permission to all the files and folders in the directory

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I was getting this problem with a remote repository on a Samba share  I pulled successfully from this remote  but failed when pushing to it   The cause of the error was incorrect credentials in my    smbcredentials file

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The sumplest solution is  From the project dir  sudo chmod 777 -R  git objects

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Works for me   sudo chmod -R g rwX

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A good way to debug this is the next time it happens  SSH into the remote repo  cd into the objects folder and do an ls -al   If you see 2-3 files with different user group ownership than this is the problem   It s happened to me in the past with some legacy scripts access our git repo and usually means a different  unix  user pushed   modified files last and your user doesn t have permissions to overwrite those files  You should create a shared git group that all git-enabled users are in and then recursively chgrp the objects folder and it s contents so that it s group ownership is the shared git group    You should also add a sticky bit on the folder so that all the files created in the folder will always have the group of git      chmod g s directory-name   Update  I didn t know about core sharedRepository  Good to know  though it probably just does the above

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Repair Permissions  After you have identified and fixed the underlying cause  see below   you ll want to repair the permissions   cd  path to repo git sudo chgrp -R groupname   sudo chmod -R g rwX   find   -type d -exec chmod g s          Note if you want everyone to be able to modify the repository  you don t need the chgrp and you will want to change the chmod to sudo chmod -R a rwX    If you do not fix the underlying cause  the error will keep coming back and you ll have to keep re-running the above commands over and over again   Underlying Causes  The error could be caused by one of the following    The repository isn t configured to be a shared repository  see core sharedRepository in git help config    If the output of   git config core sharedRepository   is not group or true or 1 or some mask  try running   git config core sharedRepository group   and then re-run the recursive chmod and chgrp  see  Repair Permissions  above   The operating system doesn t interpret a setgid bit on directories as  all new files and subdirectories should inherit the group owner    When core sharedRepository is true or group  Git relies on a feature of GNU operating systems  e g   every Linux distribution  to ensure that newly created subdirectories are owned by the correct group  the group that all of the repository s users are in    This feature is documented in the GNU coreutils documentation           If  a directory s set-group-ID bit is set  newly created subfiles inherit the same group as the directory  and newly created subdirectories inherit the set-group-ID bit of the parent directory       This mechanism lets  users share files more easily  by lessening the need to use chmod or chown to share new files    However  not all operating systems have this feature  NetBSD is one example    For those operating systems  you should make sure that all of your Git users have the same default group   Alternatively  you can make the repository world-writable by running git config core sharedRepository world  but be careful mdash this is less secure   The file system doesn t support the setgid bit  e g   FAT    ext2  ext3  ext4 all support the setgid bit   As far as I know  the file systems that don t support the setgid bit also don t support the concept of group ownership so all files and directories will be owned by the same group anyway  which group is a mount option    In this case  make sure all Git users are in the group that owns all the files in the file system  Not all of the Git users are in the same group that owns the repository directories   Make sure the group owner on the directories is correct and that all users are in that group

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This can easily happen if you ran git init with a different user from the one you are planning to use when pushing changes   If you blindly follow the instructions on  1  this will happen as you probably created the git-user as root and then immediately moved on to git init without changing user in between    1  http   git-scm com book en Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server

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I was getting this error when running a remote development development machine using Vagrant  None of the above solutions worked because all the files had the correct permissions  I fixed it by changing config vm box    quot hasicorp bionic64 quot  to config vm box    quot bento ubuntu-20 10 quot

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For Ubuntu  or any Linux   From project root   cd  git objects ls -al sudo chown -R yourname yourgroup     You can tell what yourname and yourgroup should be by looking at the permissions on the majority of the output from that ls -al command  Note  remember the star at the end of the sudo line

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After using git for a long time without problems  I encountered this problem today  After some reflection  I realized I changed my umask earlier today from 022 to something else  All the answers by other people are helpful  i e   do chmod for the offending directories  But the root cause is my new umask which will always cause a new problem down the road whenever a new directory is created under  git object   So  the long term solution for me is to change umask back to 022

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I got this when pulling into an Rstudio project  I realised I forgot to do   sudo rstudio   on program startup  In fact as there s another bug I ve got  I need to actually do   sudo rstudio --no-sandbox

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use the following command  works like magic  sudo chown -R    USER -  id -un        type the command exactly as it is  with extra spaces and one dot at the end

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After you add some stuff    commit them and after all finished push it  BANG   Start all problems    As you should notice there are some differences in the way both new and existent projects were defined  If some other person tries to add commit push same files  or content  git keep both as same objects   we will face the following error     git push Counting objects  31  done  Delta compression using up to 2 threads  Compressing objects  100   17 17   done  Writing objects  100   21 21   2 07 KiB   0 bytes s  done  Total 21  delta 12   reused 0  delta 0  remote  error  insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database   objects  remote  fatal  failed to write object   To solve this problem you have to have something in mind operational system s permissions system as you are restricted by it in this case  Tu understand better the problem  go ahead and check your git object s folder   git objects   You will probably see something like that    lt your user name gt   lt the machine name gt  objects   ls -la total 200 drwxr-xr-x 25  lt your user name gt   lt group name gt  2048 Feb 10 09 28   drwxr-xr-x  3  lt his user name gt   lt group name gt  1024 Feb  3 15 06    drwxr-xr-x  2  lt his user name gt   lt group name gt  1024 Jan 31 13 39 02 drwxr-xr-x  2  lt his user name gt   lt group name gt  1024 Feb  3 13 24 08    Note that those file s permissions were granted only for your users  no one will never can changed it       Level       u   g   o Permission rwx r-x --- Binary     111 101 000 Octal       7   5   0   SOLVING THE PROBLEM  If you have super user permission  you can go forward and change all permissions by yourself using the step two  in any-other case you will need to ask all users with objects created with their users  use the following command to know who they are     ls -la   awk   print  3     sort -u   lt your user name gt   lt his user name gt    Now you and all file s owner users will have to change those files permission  doing     chmod -R 774     After that you will need to add a new property that is equivalent to --shared group done for the new repository  according to the documentation  this make the repository group-writable  do it executing     git config core sharedRepository group   https   coderwall com p 8b3ksg

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You need the sufficient write permissions on the directory that you are pushing to   In my case  Windows 2008 server  right click on git repo directory or parent directory   Properties   Sharing tab   Advanced Sharing   Permissions   make sure the user has appropriate access rights

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I ll add my two cents just as a way to discover files with a specific ownership inside a directory  The issue was caused by running some git command as root  The received message was    git commit -a -m  quot fix xxx quot  error  insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database  git objects error  setup sh  failed to insert into database  I first looked at git config -l  then I resolved with  find  git  -exec stat --format  quot  G  n quot        grep root  chown -R   id -un    id -gn   git objects   git commit -a -m  quot fixed git objects ownership quot

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You may have accidentally  nested git repositories

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There is a possibility also that you added another local repository with the same alias  As an example  you now have 2 local folders referred to as origin so when you try to push  the remote repository will not accept you credentials   Rename the local repository aliases  you can follow this link https   stackoverflow com a 26651835 2270348  Maybe you can leave 1 local repository of your liking as origin and the others rename them for example from origin to anotherorigin  Remember these are just aliases and all you need to do is remember the new aliases and their respective remote branches

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I just wanted to add my solution  I had a repo on OS X that had ownership of root on some directories and Home  which is my user directory  on others which caused the same error listed above   The solution was simple thankfully  From terminal   sudo chown -R Home projectdirectory

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Linux  macOS   cd  git  sudo chown -R name group     where name is your username and group is the group that your username belongs to

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