catch 22 with git permissions for private repos

I'm getting the following when I try to send a dir from my server to a private repos with github..

$:/home/my_site/$ git push origin master

   Enter passphrase for key '/home/adamgamb/.ssh/id_rsa': 
   error: unable to create directory for .git/refs/remotes/origin/master
   error: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master'.
   Everything up-to-date

Cur开发者_StackOverflow中文版rently, if I try to use git with out sudo I get this error because the files can't be accessed, however, if I use sudo the git publickey is rejected (it is in the ~/.ssh of the user im executing this as)

Can anyone explain how to avoid this problem?

$: sudo git push origin master
  Permission denied (publickey).
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

The directory that it's complaining about not being able to create is actually in your home directory -- i.e., ~/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master . Probably what happened is that you ran git under sudo, created these files as root, and now you can't access them. As root, you could chown -R adamgamb ~adamgamb/.git, then try again as you.