Git commit fails due to insufficient permissions

Question

I get the following error when trying to commit to local storage:

error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects

I created another repository to compare permissions .git, .git/objectsand everything works fine in the new repository, and the permissions are the same as for drwxr-xr-x.

What could be causing this error?

Answer 1

cd repository
chown -R user:group *
cd .git
chown -R user:group *
cd ..

there is a second chow because the first one did not make it into .git

Change: If the above does not help, try running the chown commands as root.

Edit 2: replace “user” and “group” with your username and group name.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I ran into the same problem. I thought my current working local repository was corrupted. So, I again cloned the repository from the remote. Now I can commit and push from this new repository without any problems.

Note. If you want to change old repos, use git stash and apply git stash in the new repo.

Answer 4

cd <path-to-repo>
cd .git/objects
sudo chown -R <username>:<group> *

It worked for me from the staffband.