Git push error pre-receive hook declined

Question

I have run gitlabhq rails server on virtual machine, following 1-6 steps from this tutorial https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/install/centos/README.md a

Answer 1

In my case, my team lead to created a repo(repo was empty) and assign me as developer so when I pushed to the code directly to master the error I was facing ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) So how it was fixed that he assigned to me as maintainer so I was able to push the code directly to the master.