Question

I keep getting this error with HG (Mercurial), it seems like it’s having a problem with the file, but i have permissions on the file, so i’m not sure why it’s returning an error:

me@server:/repo$ hg up -v
resolving manifests
getting __init__.py
abort: Operation not permitted: /repo/__init__.py.orig

me@server:/repo$ ls -l /repo/__init__.py
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 3022 2012-03-22 14:13 /repo/__init__.py

me@server:/repo$ ls -ld /repo/
-rwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 2012-03-22 13:23 /repo/

here is another sample:

me@server:/repo$ ls -l /repo/modular.py.orig 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 34188 2012-03-29 12:50 /repo/modular.py.orig

me@server:/repo$ ls -l /repo/ -d
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2012-03-29 12:50 /repo/

Any ideas how i can prevent this in the future?

Answer 1

I think it’s saying it’s unable to create the file /repo/__init__.py.orig. Check these permissions:

ls -l /repo/__init__.py.orig

and

ls -l /repo/

You need write access for both of those for user ‘me’