Re: Cant clone/pull/fetch because of "Unable to create temporary file '$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_'

From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: May 16, 2017, 10:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20170516103836.GB2169@alpha.vpn.ikke.info>
In-Reply-To: <cf9ce8e9-a358-4fdf-aa7c-a8ab76b6429a@gmail.com>

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:28:58AM +0200, Thomas Schweikle wrote:

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> $ git clone
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
> linux-stable
> Cloning into 'linux-stable'...
> remote: Counting objects: 5932092, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (154131/154131), done.
> fatal: Unable to create temporary file
> '$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX': Permission
> denied
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> Since no file/directory created by git I cant tell why git isn't
> able to create
> "$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX".
> 
> If I try to create this file and directory I can create it:
> $ mkdir -p $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack
> $ touch $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX
> $ ll $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX
> -rw-rw-r-x+ 1 tps tps 0 May 15 00:18
> /home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX
> $
> 
> $ git --version
> git version 2.11.0
> 
> -- 
> Thomas

Note the '+' at the end of the permission list. This means an acl has been applied to this directory.

What does getfacl '$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/' return?