From: Brett Ryan <brett.ryan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:00:11 GMT
Subject: Does a `git pull' write to the origin repository in any way?
Message-ID: <a65d095e0810220200q42936427o917cdac067d04135@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, the reason I ask this question is because my pattern of
development is to create local source git repositories on my home
directory, then pull them to the central location. I found myself
getting the error `unable to create temporary sha1 filename
.git/objects/11: File exists' which after investigation found that
there were paths in `.git/objects/' owned by root which is who I use
to do the pull from my home directory using sudo. `git log' shows all
commits as me.

Typical dev cycle.

cd ~/src/appl_bin
# make mods
git commit -a
cd $DEST
sudo git pull ~/src/appl_bin linux_test

Thankyou
-Brett