Git push error: Unable to unlink old (Permission denied)

Question

In the remote server I have a post-receive hook set up in order to make a git checkout of my repository:

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/ git         


        

Answer 1

Also remember to check permission of root directory itself!

You may find:

drwxr-xr-x  9 not-you www-data  4096 Aug  8 16:36 ./
-rw-r--r--  1     you www-data  3012 Aug  8 16:36 README.txt
-rw-r--r--  1     you www-data  3012 Aug  8 16:36 UPDATE.txt

and 'permission denied' error will pop up.

Answer 2

After checking the permission of the folder, it is okay with 744. I had the problem with a plugin that is installed on my WordPress site. The plugin has hooked that are in the corn job I suspected.

With a simple sudo it can fix the issue

sudo git pull origin master

You have it working.