I am following the laptop wiki with git tip page. I have set up my local and remote wiki as suggested. However, when I try to push my local changes back to the server I get the following error:

Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 359 bytes, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) cannot write to /home/ian/ianbarton/.ikiwiki/commitlock: No such file or directory To ian@wilkesley.org:~/ikiwiki/ianbarton.git 5cf9054..16a871d master -> master

The relevnt bit of my setup file is:

git_wrapper => '/home/ian/ianbarton.git/hooks/post-commit',

Now ~/ianbarton/.ikiwiki exists and is owned and writable by me. I have tried touching commitlock and also removing lock and commitlock before pushing. Any suggestions for further trouble shooting?

Ian.

I'm guessing that this is some kind of permissions problem, and that the error message is just being misleading.

When you push the changes to the server, what user is git logging into the server as? If that user is different than ian (possibly due to using git-daemon?), the post-commit wrapper needs to be setuid to ian. This ensures that ikiwiki runs as you and can see and write to the files. --Joey

The user is logging as ian, the same user as the laptop. I can push and pull git repos on the same server owned by the same user via ssh with no problem. I have deleted and re-started from scratch several times. However, for my use case I think it's simpler to keep the repo on my local computer and just rsync the web pages to the server.

Ian.

Ian, you've copied over the repo created by ikiwiki --setup, which contains hook/post-update - just remove that file which is not required anymore on the git server side.

Serge