Unable to access 'git/attributes'

Question

What does warning remote: warning: unable to access \'/root/.config/git/attributes\': Permission denied means and what implications does it bring?

Answer 1

I think your HOME envireonment variable is improperly set.

From the google group thread,

the HOME environment variable was set to /root so it looked at /root/.gitconfig or /root/.config/git/config since the unprivileged user didn't have access to /root it threw an error.

So the solution was for me to set the HOME env to the user's HOME directory