I cannot push: # > git push origin Login for jocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Password: Counting objects: 7, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done. Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 13.73 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 7 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0) fatal: Unable to create temporary file '/var/git/tmv3-target-overlay.git/shallow_Un8ZOR': Permission denied fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly cu-km022 tmv3-target-overlay # ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 72 Aug 19 17:59 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38 Aug 19 17:59 ../ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Aug 21 13:07 .git/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Aug 19 17:59 metadata/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58 Aug 19 18:27 profiles/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74 Aug 19 17:59 sys-apps/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42 Aug 19 17:59 sys-libs/ On server I have: # >ls -la total 24 dr-xr-sr-x 6 apache tm-3000 123 Jun 10 15:25 . drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 4096 Jun 25 11:11 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root tm-3000 263 Jun 10 15:18 config -r--r--r-- 1 apache tm-3000 73 Jun 10 15:18 description -rw-r--r-- 1 root tm-3000 0 Jun 10 15:25 git-daemon-export-ok -r--r--r-- 1 apache tm-3000 23 Jun 10 15:18 HEAD drwxr-sr-x 2 root tm-3000 4096 Jun 10 15:18 hooks drwxrwsr-x 2 apache tm-3000 20 Jun 10 15:18 info drwxrwsr-x 135 apache tm-3000 4096 Aug 20 19:07 objects drwxrwsr-x 4 apache tm-3000 29 Jun 10 15:18 refs I suspect this is because no one is allowed to write the repos top dir. It would be much better if git allowed a tmp dir inside the repo and used that for push etc. Meanwhile, is there some workaround I can use? Jocke-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html