Error pushing to GitHub - insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database

Question

I\'m getting back an unusual error while trying to do a \"git push\" to my GitHub repository:

Counting objects: 8, done.
Delta compression using 2 threads.
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Answer 1

Oddly enough, I had this issue on one clone of the repo I had, but not another I had. Aside from re-cloning the repo (which a coworker did to successfully get around this issue), I managed to do a "git reset" to the commit I had before the failures started. Then I re-committed the changes, and I was able to push successfully after that. So despite all the indications there was a problem on the server, in this case it apparently was indicative of some oddity in the local repo.