# "error: unable to write sha1 filename" when trying to push my code to balena **URL:** \ **Category:** Product support\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191 "2019-06-19T09:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/1 "2019-06-19T09:59:23Z")
I am currently getting the following errors when trying to push code to balena: ```auto BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git push balena dev_pulseaudio:master Enter passphrase for key '/c/Users/IBM_ADMIN/.ssh/id_rsa': Counting objects: 6, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 525 bytes | 43.00 KiB/s, done. Total 6 (delta 4), reused 5 (delta 3) error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/28/c24232ab573f0eb00f9704f835c6b3494a2c25: Permission denied error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/0e/bcd597a229f2255ebd4aeb5fc7bae3eafbff7c: Permission denied To git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git ! [remote rejected] dev_pulseaudio -> master (unable to migrate objects to permanent storage) error: failed to push some refs to 'gh_janvda@git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git' ``` ---
**Author:** ![telphan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@telphan](https://forums.balena.io/u/telphan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/2 "2019-06-19T10:37:25Z")
Apologies, but I have trouble replicating this issue. Could you try again and let me know if the issue is still present? ---
**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/4 "2019-06-19T11:39:25Z")
I want to deploy code in a local branch (which is different from master) to balena. Note that deploying code in the master branch works for me (just tested it). I have tried again deploying code from my local branch `dev_pulseaudio` and I am getting same error. ```auto BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git branch * dev_pulseaudio master BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git status On branch dev_pulseaudio Your branch is ahead of 'origin/dev_pulseaudio' by 7 commits. (use "git push" to publish your local commits) nothing to commit, working tree clean BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git remote -v balena gh_janvda@git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git (fetch) balena gh_janvda@git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git (push) origin https://github.com/janvda/balena-google-assistant.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/janvda/balena-google-assistant.git (push) BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git push balena dev_pulseaudio:master Enter passphrase for key '/c/Users/IBM_ADMIN/.ssh/id_rsa': Counting objects: 21, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done. Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 1.94 KiB | 153.00 KiB/s, done. Total 21 (delta 13), reused 19 (delta 11) error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/28/c24232ab573f0eb00f9704f835c6b3494a2c25: Permission denied error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/0e/bcd597a229f2255ebd4aeb5fc7bae3eafbff7c: Permission denied To git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git ! [remote rejected] dev_pulseaudio -> master (unable to migrate objects to permanent storage) error: failed to push some refs to 'gh_janvda@git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git' BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git push balena dev_pulseaudio:master --force Enter passphrase for key '/c/Users/IBM_ADMIN/.ssh/id_rsa': Counting objects: 21, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done. Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 1.94 KiB | 79.00 KiB/s, done. Total 21 (delta 13), reused 19 (delta 11) error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/28/c24232ab573f0eb00f9704f835c6b3494a2c25: Permission denied error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/0e/bcd597a229f2255ebd4aeb5fc7bae3eafbff7c: Permission denied To git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git ! [remote rejected] dev_pulseaudio -> master (unable to migrate objects to permanent storage) error: failed to push some refs to 'gh_janvda@git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git' BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) ``` ---
**Author:** ![jviotti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jviotti/32/220_2.png) [@jviotti](https://forums.balena.io/u/jviotti)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/11 "2019-06-19T12:26:09Z")
Hey there! What version of git are you running in your machine? Can you try reproducing the issue with another git versions, and potentially an environment other than MinGW? The fact that the permissions error messages are not prefixed by `remote:` makes me think these errors are coming from the repository in your machine (maybe something weird with MinGW?) rather than on the remote one on our servers. Can you double check that your user has the necessary permissions to write files in `.git/objects`? i.e. maybe try: ```auto touch .git/objects/28/c24232ab573f0eb00f9704f835c6b3494a2c25 touch .git/objects/0e/bcd597a229f2255ebd4aeb5fc7bae3eafbff7c ``` ---
**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/13 "2019-06-19T12:31:24Z")
Thanks for the response. As requested: ```auto BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ git --version git version 2.17.1.windows.2 BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) $ touch .git/objects/28/c24232ab573f0eb00f9704f835c6b3494a2c25 BE02506@20FM-PC0CP7KD MINGW64 ~/balena/active/balena-google-assistant (dev_pulseaudio) ``` I will retry later from different machine. ---
**Author:** ![jviotti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jviotti/32/220_2.png) [@jviotti](https://forums.balena.io/u/jviotti)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/14 "2019-06-19T12:43:30Z")
Hey there, Cool, lets see how it goes. In the mean-time, can you link me to the repo you are using so I can test it from my side? I initially thought it was one of our projects, but I can’t seem to find any called `balena-google-assistant` ---
**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/16 "2019-06-19T12:52:28Z")
Sure, I have just pushed my local changes also to github = [https://github.com/janvda/balena-google-assistant](https://github.com/janvda/balena-google-assistant) ---
**Author:** ![jviotti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jviotti/32/220_2.png) [@jviotti](https://forums.balena.io/u/jviotti)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/17 "2019-06-19T12:58:40Z")
Thanks a lot! I tried to reproduce the exact same scenario as you, and it all seems fine on git 2.22.0 on macOS Mojave. I’ll continue doing some research but I still think it might be an issue on the client side of things (we’ll see what happens in another computer) ---
**Author:** ![thiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/thiver/32/3911_2.png) [@thiver](https://forums.balena.io/u/thiver)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/19 "2019-06-19T15:14:16Z")
I had the same problem this afternoon, I couldn’t push my code anymore to my application because of the same type of error. When I created a new application, I could push all commits without any problem. Eventually I ended up pushing my code - commit by commit - to the existing application. One commit seemed to cause the error, I removed the commit from my history and recommitted the changes. ---
**Author:** ![jviotti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jviotti/32/220_2.png) [@jviotti](https://forums.balena.io/u/jviotti)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/20 "2019-06-19T15:15:42Z")
Very interesting. Do you remember what was the problematic commit? It might be good to have it as a part of our test suite ---
**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/23 "2019-06-19T22:06:55Z")
just did the same on MacOS Mojave and I am having the same issue. ```auto Jans-MBP:balena-google-assistant jan$ git push balena dev_pulseaudio:master --force Enumerating objects: 23, done. Counting objects: 100% (23/23), done. Delta compression using up to 12 threads Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done. Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 1.94 KiB | 1.94 MiB/s, done. Total 21 (delta 13), reused 21 (delta 13) error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/28/c24232ab573f0eb00f9704f835c6b3494a2c25: Permission denied error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/0e/bcd597a229f2255ebd4aeb5fc7bae3eafbff7c: Permission denied To git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git ! [remote rejected] dev_pulseaudio -> master (unable to migrate objects to permanent storage) error: failed to push some refs to 'gh_janvda@git.balena-cloud.com:gh_janvda/pi3three.git' Jans-MBP:balena-google-assistant jan$ git --version git version 2.20.1 (Apple Git-117) Jans-MBP:balena-google-assistant jan$ ``` ---
**Author:** ![samothx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@samothx](https://forums.balena.io/u/samothx)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/25 "2019-06-19T23:01:09Z")
Hi, just tried on Ubuntu 18.04 and it worked with the following sequence of events: ```auto git clone git@github.com:janvda/balena-google-assistant.git cd balena-google-assistant git remote add balena thomasr@git.balena-cloud.com:thomasr/rpitest-empty.git git push balena master ``` worked and ```auto git checkout dev_pulseaudio git push balena dev_pulseaudio:master --force ``` worked too. I wonder if it is something in your balena git repository. To check that (and get working again) you could create a new application and check in as above. If that fails too the problem is likely in your system, if it succeeds something might be going wrong in your balena repo, Regards Thomas ---
**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/27 "2019-06-20T06:53:35Z")
It strongly looks like there is a problem with the 2 commits on my remote Balena git repository. So the problem is not at my end or specific to the changes I have made to my git repository. See also the comment from @thiver who reported a similar issue. I also created a new branch not including the 2 commits and that I could push without a problem to balena. ---
**Author:** ![nghiant2710](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nghiant2710](https://forums.balena.io/u/nghiant2710)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/28 "2019-06-20T07:34:27Z")
Hi, As my colleague mentioned above, can you please share with us more details about the problematic commits? So we can identify the issue and add it as a part of our test suite. ---
**Author:** ![Nurama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@Nurama](https://forums.balena.io/u/Nurama)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/30 "2019-06-20T07:46:00Z")
Hello, I’m experiencing the same issue: ``` $ git remote add balena jef@git.balena-cloud.com:jef/playerrpi3dev.git $ git push balena master Counting objects: 26, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done. Writing objects: 100% (26/26), 40.57 KiB | 2.03 MiB/s, done. Total 26 (delta 13), reused 12 (delta 2) error: unable to write sha1 filename ./objects/d8/df1e5045bfa9c6d0010ec85af44ecd56e020c9: Permission denied To git.balena-cloud.com:jef/playerrpi3dev.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (unable to migrate objects to permanent storage) error: failed to push some refs to 'jef@git.balena-cloud.com:jef/playerrpi3dev.git' ``` I’ve already tried cloning my “origin” repo again, and adding the “balena” remote, but that did not change anything. Also just experiencing this since this morning (just got in the office). ---
**Author:** ![thiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/thiver/32/3911_2.png) [@thiver](https://forums.balena.io/u/thiver)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/31 "2019-06-20T08:27:19Z")
I did a bunch of changes to my docker-compose.yml file and suspected one of these was the culprit causing some git hooks to fail. Pushing commit by commit, the failing commit was just a simple addition to an application method. ---
**Author:** ![dfunckt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/dfunckt/32/56_2.png) [@dfunckt](https://forums.balena.io/u/dfunckt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/32 "2019-06-20T11:37:50Z")
@nurama can you please do `git log -l 20` and paste the output here? @thiver, can you also please do `git log` and paste here the _problematic_ commit? Including a couple of commits above and below the problematic one would also be useful. ---
**Author:** ![Nurama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@Nurama](https://forums.balena.io/u/Nurama)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/34 "2019-06-20T12:30:43Z")
``` commit 4a70ed7922a0d4ca44a8e2732c0a1e4e4b6b8e1d (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) ``` Author: Dirk Moors [dirkmoors@gmail.com](mailto:dirkmoors@gmail.com) Date: Thu Jun 20 09:24:02 2019 +0200 ``` Debugging chromium flags ``` commit f55b6cb38e2c97bd192401c287447c28346dd0d4 Author: Dirk Moors [dirkmoors@gmail.com](mailto:dirkmoors@gmail.com) Date: Thu Jun 20 09:20:36 2019 +0200 ``` Debugging stability ``` commit 5b0869f6a0aaf2b08cb219151cfabdd3c6612716 Author: Dirk Moors [dirkmoors@gmail.com](mailto:dirkmoors@gmail.com) Date: Wed Jun 19 11:59:13 2019 +0200 ``` Bugfix ``` commit a411904fdc742c99f2411d926e0e465f77d0729d Merge: 201f94b 46556f2 Author: Dirk Moors [dirk@nurama.com](mailto:dirk@nurama.com) Date: Wed Jun 19 09:43:24 2019 +0000 ``` Merged in TEC-500/lg-display-controller (pull request #3) Added LG display controller logic Approved-by: Dirk Moors ``` commit 46556f225b3c35410d6de504e6e38844daa12564 Author: Dirk Moors [dirkmoors@gmail.com](mailto:dirkmoors@gmail.com) Date: Wed Jun 19 11:37:43 2019 +0200 ``` Added LG display controller logic ``` commit 201f94babcb7a0d26d4d635429489eb125d7ec36 Author: Dirk Moors [dirkmoors@gmail.com](mailto:dirkmoors@gmail.com) Date: Tue Jun 18 17:34:16 2019 +0200 ``` Updated some styling for network state view ``` commit 8e5aaa70a365e3358380795c91ab0fcfcbf09b33 Author: Dirk Moors [dirkmoors@gmail.com](mailto:dirkmoors@gmail.com) Date: Tue Jun 18 10:45:28 2019 +0200 ``` Debugging watchdog ``` commit d4ffc01e078c7f0e92c73fae21b56f5cdaf83477 Author: Dirk Moors [dirk@nurama.com](mailto:dirk@nurama.com) Date: Tue Jun 18 08:23:00 2019 +0000 ``` Merged in TEC-493/offline-behavior-templates (pull request #2) TEC-493/offline behavior templates * Debugging offline behavior * Debugging offline behavior * Debugging * Added extra error handling ``` : ---
**Author:** ![dfunckt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/dfunckt/32/56_2.png) [@dfunckt](https://forums.balena.io/u/dfunckt)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/35 "2019-06-20T12:56:24Z")
@nurama thanks. Can you tell us more about the time it first happened? Did you make new commits at that time? Have you pushed before? ---
**Author:** ![Nurama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@Nurama](https://forums.balena.io/u/Nurama)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191/37 "2019-06-20T13:56:46Z")
Hi, I experienced the issue for the first time this morning, as I got in the office. My last successful push was somewhere around 16:00 CET yesterday… I’ve created a simple new commit on top of my previous commit, so no strange things there… Is there some way to “reset” the “remote” git repo so I can push a new, clean version or is there something else I can do? [Next page](https://forums.balena.io/t/error-unable-to-write-sha1-filename-when-trying-to-push-my-code-to-balena/16191.md?page=2)