fatal: failed to read object xxx: Permission denied

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I'm trying to run:

git checkout master

and im constantly getting: fatal: 

failed to read object 9466835e6cb608c32ec4bf98b2acfa421fd77d3d: Permission denied

I tried running:

chown -R my-user *

with no help. any suggestions?

git
1 Answers

First Try 

sudo chmod -R  777 path_to_your_project_folder

If it does not work try below solution.

Try to do this happens sometimes when dangling blobs are left in git history. You can backup your .git folder and run fsck.

$ git fsck --full

Refer this answer for more details

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