git push: “error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects”

Question

Yeah, I know, this thing has been on here before, I've seen the questions. git push gives me this:

error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects

I have just one question: Is this error regarding the local or the server-side repository database?

And why am I the only one getting this error among the developers?

(I'm asking this question because my server guy doesn't want to believe me that this is a server-side problem)

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Alright, here's the long version:

Two users have pulled a rep into their workspace.

1. User 2 pushes some change.
2. User 1 changes something, commits, then pulls the change of User 2 to be merged.

3. User 1 tries to push, but gets this:

   git.exe push --progress "origin" dev:dev

   Counting objects: 18, done. Compressing objects: 100% (10/10) Writing objects: 100% (10/10) Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 870 bytes, done. Total 10 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0) error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects

   fatal: failed to write object error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit To git@XXX:twf ! [remote rejected] dev -> dev (n/a (unpacker error)) error: failed to push some refs to 'git@XXX:twf'

   git did not exit cleanly (exit code 1)

Answer 1

Perhaps I didn't get your question, but... you're right, of course, there are several questions asked here about exactly the same. Let's check this one, for example:

Usually this problem is caused by wrong user and group permissions on your git servers file-system.

UPDATE: anyway, it's actually quite easy to make the check who is to blame - your local environment or the server's one. Let some other developer (but not user 2!) to make exactly the same update that you did (update the same files you did; it won't be too hard, considering your report), then try to git push these updates from his/her machine.