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David LeBauer
David LeBauer

Reputation: 31751

why is permission denied for bzr push?

user2 wants to bzr push changes to a directory /home/user1/project/dev. user2 has group +rwx permissions on this directory, but not in my home directory /home/user1/

This results in the error:

bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "h2i9usf1l6ieofpuul87.pack": [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user1/.bzr/repository/upload/h2i9usf1l6ieofpuul87.pack'

It is not clear to me why user2 needs permission to my home /home/user1/.bzr/ when /home/user1/project/dev is branch is from /home/usr1/project/trunk.

I am relatively new to using VCS and am not sure how I got in this predicament. Is there a way to break the dependency on the /home/user1/.bzr, or to create a branch from /home/user1/project/trunk/ that does not have this dependency?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1308

Answers (3)

Anonymous
Anonymous

Reputation: 11

I think all parent directories should have o+x permissions.

Upvotes: 1

David LeBauer
David LeBauer

Reputation: 31751

(provided by user3) This might be fixed using following commands (group name is project_dev):

chgrp -R project_dev /home/user1/project/dev
find /home/user1/project/dev -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
  1. make all files owned by group cheas_dev,
  2. add the sticky bit to all folders making it that all files/folders created under it will also be owned by group project_dev.

Upvotes: 1

bialix
bialix

Reputation: 21473

It seems you have shared repository in /home/user1/ and branch at /home/user1/project/dev is using that repository. Therefore it needs access to repository to store new revisions.

How to check: run command bzr info and check its output for the definition of that branch. If you will see "Repository tree" or "Repository branch" then that branch definitely using a shared repository. You should see the path to the repository in the output of bzr info.

How to fix: instruct bzr to stop using shared repository by executing command bzr reconfigure --standalone in the branch at /home/user1/project/dev. Check output of bzr info again. Now it should be named "Standalone tree" or "Standalone branch". After that user2 should be able to successfully push to that branch.

Upvotes: 4

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