I've been using the GitHub for Mac app but on the suggestion of a friend, decided to give Tower a shot since it can also handle Beanstalk accounts as well.
After installing the trial and putting in my GitHub username and password, I'm given this error:
error: could not lock config file /Users/joshferrara/.gitconfig: Permission denied
I was just curious if anyone knows what's causing this or if it has any relevance to me using Tower. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Permissions on the file:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 joshferrara staff 130 Nov 22 17:14 /Users/joshferrara/.gitconfig
Permissions on the parent directory:
drwxr-xr-x 74 501 staff 2516 Apr 26 14:46 /Users/joshferrara
It turned out to be an odd permission issue between the .gitconfig file that Github for Mac created with root privileges and Tower wasn't able to access.
A simple change of ownership privileges fixed the problem. Ownership can be changed like so:
sudo chown -R username [file|directory]
Explanation:
sudo - grant root privilegeschown - changes the ownership-R - for recursive changing of filesusername - username of new owner[file|directory] - file or directory for change to occur (if directory is specified it's going to recursively change all the files inside)