On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Philipp Kraus <philipp.kr...@flashpixx.de> wrote:
> I'm running a PHP script which pulls & checkouts a Git repo. The > script clones first the repo and on each next call it should get all > new changes (git clone and than git pull). > Sometime I get the message: > > git checkout-index unable to create file (permission denied) > > exspecially on the .gitignore files. The webserver run the script and > the file / directory owner is the webserver, also of the .gitignore > files, so the message "permission denied" is wrong. > > I don't understand why the git client create this message > and this problem. The PHP script checks first if the directory > exists, if not, it runs git clone, if it > exists it calls git --git-dir=repodir pull. Can I setup a flag to the > git client, that it should only overwrite all files, so that the > error is not shown? The error most probably comes from the OS, and Git just shows it. I mean, it's a "hard" error, occuring on the filesystem level, not a "soft" error raised by Git itself. Note that on POSIX systems, the possibility to create or delete (unlink) a file is controlled by the write permission on the directory containing that file, not by the write permission on the file itself wich controls whether the file's *contents* can be modified. Since `git checkout-index` says it failed to *create* a file, the permissions on the containing directory is probably a culprit. Now, if we assume your .gitignore file is supposed to be located in the top-level repository directory, and you're using the "--git-dir" command-line option to tell Git its database is located elsewhere, not in the work tree directory, the most possible problem is that your top-level repository directory has wrong permissions set on it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
