I tried and failed to push to the testsuite repo today. $ git push Counting objects: 12, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done. Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 695 bytes, done. Total 7 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0) error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects fatal: failed to write object error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit To simonmar@darcs.haskell.org:/srv/darcs/testsuite.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) error: failed to push some refs to 'simonmar@darcs.haskell.org:/srv/darcs/testsuite.git' It looks like we're not setting group write permission correctly after commits: simonmar@ghc:/home/darcs/testsuite.git/objects$ ls -l total 136 drwxr-sr-x 2 ezyang darcs 4096 Jul 20 22:53 02 drwxr-sr-x 2 simonmar darcs 4096 Jul 22 09:51 0a drwxr-sr-x 2 ezyang darcs 4096 Jul 20 18:13 0f I vaguely recall that we used to do this with a post-commit hook to do a 'chmod g+w -R' on the tree. Could someone look into this please? Cheers, Simon