Permissions for .git/ for each working directory

I get this error every time I git push. Only for this working directory. Not in another similar one, where from what I can tell has the same permissions.

$ git push
Counting objects: 15, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 683 bytes, done.
Total 8 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Sending mail...
To git@devel.site.com:mysite.git
dd36358..86bc572  redesign -> redesign
! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@devel.si开发者_运维问答te.com:mysite.git'
To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected
Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull') before pushing again.  See the
'Note about fast-forwards' section of 'git push --help' for details.

Is this a permissions issue? git pull seems to work fine and git push seems to go through too but I still get the error.

Any ideas?

Ahem

Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull') before pushing again.

This really doesn't look like a permissions problem to me.

It's not a permissions issue; see the error message:

error: failed to push some refs to 'git@devel.site.com:mysite.git' To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull') before pushing again. See the 'Note about fast-forwards' section of 'git push --help' for details.

The "note about fast-forwards" section of git push --help has a lengthy explanation of the problem, but in short; the branch you're pushing to isn't a direct ancestor of your current branch, so the remote server won't let you push. You need to fix your local changes (e.g. git pull to get changes you're missing, or git rebase to rebase your changes onto the remote head), or force the remote server to accept the push with --force (the latter is almost never the right move)

In case this is still a problem, if you do git push, you're pushing all your branches, not just the current one.

git pull is NOT a direct opposite to git push, however. It is exactly the same as doing the following commands:

git fetch
git merge origin/thecurrentbranch

That is, git pull only merges the working branch. It does NOT merge any other branches.

If git pull comes up clean, but you still can't push, it means that one of your other branches is out of date, and that's what git is complaining about.

The solution is to only push your current branch:

git push origin thecurrentbranch

Note that I assume thecurrentbranch is the name of your active branch, and origin is your up-stream repository.

EDIT: Taking a close look at your original question is enlightening:

dd36358..86bc572  redesign -> redesign
! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)

You probably have redesign checked out, and so this is what git pull is operating on. However, git is rejecting the master branch. So, to resolve this specific problem, either push redesign explicitly, or do this:

git checkout master
git merge origin/master
git push