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Re: error: insufficient permission

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LRLuciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2009, 08:52 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:32:07AM +0200, Dominic Rose wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> may please somebody help me with the following issue. I try to
> checkin changes to a repository I created. Seems like I have some
> permission problems, but I can't figure out whats going wrong:
> 
> $ git commit -m 'test'
> Created commit 07b3a4a: test
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> $ git push
> Counting objects: 8, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 1.56 KiB, done.
> Total 6 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
> error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository
> database ./objects
> 
> fatal: failed to write object
> error: unpack failed: unpacker exited with error code
> To /homes/[...]
> ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
> error: failed to push some refs to '/homes/[...]'

That's a filesystem permissions problem on the server side. You'll have to check if your user has permissions to write to the objects subdir of the repository.

-- 
Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>
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