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

I guess many like me ends up in forums like this when the git problem as described above occoures. However, there are so many causes that may lead to the problem that I just wanna share what caused my troubles for others to learn as I already learned from above.

I have my repos on a Linux NAS from sitecom (Never buy NAS from Sitecom, pleeaaase). I have a repo here that is cloned on many computers but which I suddenly was denied pushing to. Recently I installed a plugin so that my NAS could stand as a squeezebox server.

This server scans for media to share. What I did not know was that, possible because of a bug, the server changes the user and group setting to squeeze:user for all files it looks into. And that is ALL files. Thus altering the rights I had to push.

Server is gone and proper rights settings are re-established and everything works perfectly.

I used

chmod -R g+ws *
chown -R : *

Where myuser and mygroup off-course must be replaced with proper settings for your system. try git:git or gituser:gituser or something else you might like.,