Couldn't find anyone else with this error, so presumably it was something idiosyncratic to my system.
Anyhoo just ran Pkg.update() and got this error: julia> Pkg.update() INFO: Updating METADATA... error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects fatal: failed to write object fatal: unpack-objects failed ERROR: failed process: Process(`git pull -q`, ProcessExited(1)) [1] in pipeline_error at process.jl:502 in run at pkg/git.jl:22 in anonymous at pkg/entry.jl:246 in with_env at env.jl:177 in anonymous at pkg/entry.jl:245 in cd at file.jl:20 in update at pkg/entry.jl:235 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:28 in cd at file.jl:20 in cd at pkg/dir.jl:28 in update at pkg.jl:41 restarting with: sudo julia fixed the issue and Pkg.update() now runs fine even with julia started without sudo, but not sure how/why this would have happened now, I don't remember ever running julia as root before. Issue existed using both Julia 0.3.0 release and after upgrading to 0.3.1 release. I have been using ijulia a bit lately and may have added some packages there for the first time, but it wasn't running as root I don't believe. I guess I'm more posting this for others that may see the same issue, so no need to reply, but if someone can scratch my curiosity's itch then that would be most welcome :)
