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

If you still get this error later after setting the permissions you may need to modify your creation mask. We found our new commits (folders under objects) were still being created with no group write permission, hence only the person who committed them could push into the repository.

We fixed this by setting the umask of the SSH users to 002 with an appropriate group shared by all users.

e.g.

umask 002

where the middle 0 is allowing group write by default.