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

This tends not to be a permissions issue.

This situation may occur when you are prompted to record a commit message when merging (for example) and you don't save and quit the text editor but you simply quit.

Git seems to assume there is still someone editting a commit message and refuses to overwrite the existing file as it would cause unexpected behaviour and loss of another commit message.