fatal: could not open '.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG': Permission denied

Question

I am trying to deploy octopress on github pages. I followed these instructions:

http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/

It all worked well until the comm

Answer 1

If you are using Windows and you are stuck with any Git permission issues, make sure your (local) repository's .git folder contents are not marked as hidden.

You can however hide the directory itself, just not it's contents (files, subdirectories).