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 is not an error message from the remote Git repository, this is a problem with your local files. You probably used git (or rake) as another user (such as root) in this same directory, and it created files which you now can't overwrite.

Simply use chown to change the ownership of the files to your current user, for instance:

chown -R $(whoami) .

Answer 2

I had a similar issue on Windows while running Visual Studio and File Explorer. Closing them resolved the issue.

Answer 3

I solved it by deleting .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG. Weird, I know.

Answer 4

In my case, the reason is that the current user(A) is not COMMIT_EDITMSG file owner(B), change current user to B and commit again. sudo su B

Answer 5

If you're using TortoiseGit, you may have a Commit dialog already open

Answer 6

If you are using linux. go to

cd /applicationname/.git
ls -al

You will see user of COMMIT_EDITMSG file

Go to root directory

sudo su
chown youruser: COMMIT_EDITMSG

You are all set! Hope this helps