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

chmod 664 the file .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG gives it group write permissions.

In my situation the file was owned by another user who was part of my development group. Giving it group write permissions solved it.

The .git directory should be in the root of your repository.

Command (assuming you are in the .git directory):

chmod 664 COMMIT_EDITMSG