About fatal: could not open '.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG': Permission denied

Asked Oct 26 '15 at 16:53

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I am having the same problem like:

when I tried the given answer:

chown --recursive $(id -u) .

in my git bash, and after I tried to commit I still have the problem. If I run:

chown --recursive $(id -u)

(Notice that the dot is not there) I got the following message:

chown: missing operand after '197609'

What does it mean? That the missing operand is the dot?

Why "chown --recursive $(id -u) ." is not solving the problem? What other things can I do?

Thanks for your help

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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asked Oct 26 '15 at 16:53

Daniel

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What does `id` output ? What does `ls -l .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG` output in the repository with that file? – Etan Reisner Oct 26 '15 at 16:54
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id does: `uid=197609(DJH) gid=197121 groups=197121` and ls -l .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG : `-r--r--r-- 1 DJH 197121 22 sept. 17 10:37 .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG` – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 16:57
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it does: `drwxr-xr-x 1 DJH 197121 0 oct. 26 17:34 .git/` – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 17:06
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And you are using `git` from the command line or from some graphical/other client when this happens? – Etan Reisner Oct 26 '15 at 17:09
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I was using tortoisegit but I have the same problem when I use git bash – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 17:10
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If you try to open that file with notepad or some other Windows application does it work? – Etan Reisner Oct 26 '15 at 17:12
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Yes I can open the file: COMMIT_EDITMSG with notepad++ – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 17:15
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And write to it? Does that change the permissions on it or the directory? – Etan Reisner Oct 26 '15 at 17:16
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Have you tried _all_ the proposed solutions in the linked answer? – Lol4t0 Oct 26 '15 at 17:17
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Yes, all except the one about YandexDisk, since I do not use that. – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 17:19
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No, I cannot write in the file. – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 17:20
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When I delete the COMMIT_EDITMSG file, it leads me to the following error [link] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10058155/unable-to-append-to-git-logs-refs-heads-master-when-commiting) but the given solutions does not work either. – Daniel Oct 26 '15 at 17:35
Do you also applied command given in comments? (`chmod -R u+x .git`) – Lol4t0 Oct 26 '15 at 18:21
I have tried the command `chmod -R u+x .git` – Daniel Oct 27 '15 at 18:42

About fatal: could not open '.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG': Permission denied

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