Checkout: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects

[MartinX3]

Dear Checkout team,
I have several repositories with an identical workflow file.
Sadly one of them get

Run git remote update
  git remote update
  shell: /bin/bash -e {0}
Fetching origin
error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects
fatal: failed to write object
fatal: unpack-objects failed
error: Could not fetch origin
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

Error:
https://github.com/MartinX3-AndroidDevelopment-LineageOS/android_device_sony_kirin/runs/471877410?check_suite_focus=true

Working:
https://github.com/MartinX3-AndroidDevelopment-LineageOS/android_device_sony_mermaid/runs/471878993?check_suite_focus=true

[peaceiris]

How about the following? We can use the options of this checkout action: https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/master/action.yml

- uses: actions/checkout@v2
  with:
    repository: 'owner/repo'

[MartinX3]

Sadly it did not change the error @peaceiris
It seems that rarely the checkout put wrong file permissions into the .git folder
And I don't see a way to workaround it.

[ericsciple]

It looks like the step \"repo-sync-sodp\" is running in a container. If it is running as root, then git fetch files created as root.

To mitigate you can add a step after \"repo-sync-sodp\" to recursively change file permissions.

- run: |
    chmod -R ugo+rwX .

[MartinX3]

Thank you
I will try it today evening
What just wonder me is that I have 8 repos with exact the same workflow file and just this single one has this bug.

[MartinX3]

Yes @ericsciple
ls -lha .git in the worflow file shows me

total 60K
drwxr-xr-x  8 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 runner docker  249 Feb 28 21:03 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r--  1 runner docker   40 Feb 28 21:03 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x  2 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 branches
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    555 Feb 28 21:03 config
-rwxr-xr-x  1 runner docker   73 Feb 28 21:03 description
drwxr-xr-x  2 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 hooks
-rw-r--r--  1 runner docker  227 Feb 28 21:03 index
drwxr-xr-x  2 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 info
drwxr-xr-x  3 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 logs
drwxr-xr-x 82 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 objects
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     46 Feb 28 21:03 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x  5 runner docker 4.0K Feb 28 21:03 refs
-rw-r--r--  1 runner docker   41 Feb 28 21:03 shallow

But only this single repository has this weird behaviour.

chmod -R ugo+rwX . results sadly into Operation not permitted.

Is there anything I can do?
Like somehow removing the files in the container?
Or do they already get new generated on every new action run?
But then I don't understand why this weird bug (only in this single repo) persist.

[ericsciple]

oh you might need to sudo chmod -R ugo+rwX .

[ericsciple]

error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects

My guess is the step \"repo-sync-sodp\" created one of the git object directories - e.g. .git/objects/ab - and the next step tried to write to the same folder?

[MartinX3]

Thank you, that did fix his special/rare bug :)

Hmmm, but shouldn't it then happen in every repo and modify the entire .git folder?

It is repo-sync/github-sync@v2 which simply reset my own branches with the ones in the upstream fork (which forces me to use a branch with a special name not existing in the upstream repo) to stay in sync for easy rebasing of my own fork changes.

But again, thank you for fixing it and saving me from the email every 15 minutes. :)

[ericsciple]

Glad to hear :)

The other repos might have enough objects initially that all .git/objects/__ folders are created during checkout (i.e. .git/objects/00/ through .git/objects/ff/.

If you run ls -la .git/objects i'm guessing only a subset have a different owner or different permissions (due to creation during \"repo-sync-sodp\")

i'm just guessing but error message sounds something like that 🤷‍♂

[LF00]

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