Re: error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/master: Permission denied

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:32:56AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > So I think we would need to simulate the errno setting, like the 
> > patch below. That should generate the hint only when it would 
> > actually be useful.
> 
> it wasnt hard to figure out what's going on. So this was more of a 
> FYI, not really a bug report. Maybe if someone tries to pull into a 
> read-only repo the same could happen? My particular breakage (of a 
> single ref being root-owned - the rest was mingo owned) is atypical 
> enough to be ignored.

Actually, it is a little bit tough to get your breakage. A pure
read-only repo would error out much earlier (permission denied on
FETCH_HEAD or writing to object db). But if yours was just "accidentally
fetched once as root", then that doesn't seem too uncommon.

> If there's no easy/clean solution then please ignore my report.

I think the patch I posted isn't too bad. We'll see what others say.

-Peff
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