Git error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/master: Permission denied

Question

I am having a strange issue that I can\'t seem to resolve. Here is what happend:

I had some log files in a github repository that I didn\'t want there. I found this

Answer 1

In my case I created the files with root permission locally and tried to push the code to remote with local permissions. So I ran this command

$find . -user root

to find out what all files have "root" as owner. And then I changed owner for all the files that are under root to local using following command

$sudo chown parineethat `find . -user root`

Then I was able to push my code from local to remote.