detected dubious ownership in repository

[Eicke Felipe]

After upgrading bitbucket from 7 to 8.8.2 we are seeing the following error:

git cat-file -t refs/heads/master:' exited with code 128 saying: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/data/repositories/1' To add an exception for this directory, call: git config --global --add safe.directory /data/repositories/1

We still see the error even after adding the safe.directory.

# git config --global --list
safe.directory=/data/repositories/1
safe.directory=*

[Christian Glockner · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Probably the /data/repositories/1 directory has a different owner than the user that Bitbucket Server is running with. You need to ensure all directories under /data/repositories have an owner that matches the user Bitbucket Server is running as.

Cheers,

Christian
Premier Support Engineer
Atlassian

[Eicke Felipe]

Thank you! We fixed that exactly as you described.

[venkatesh vp]

Thank you! changing the ownership of the repo folder with instance owner fixed the issue. The error on the UI was misguiding and your solution fixed the issue that I had.