Gitflow with Github setup

Question

I was previously using GIT with unfuddle, however I'm looking at trying Gitflow with Github as the central repository. So far I have done the following so far:

• Create Github account and create repository within Github I.e website
• cd /home/username/Downloads/ (on local machine)
• wget -q – http://github.com/nvie/gitflow/raw/develop/contrib/gitflow-installer.sh –no-check-certificate
• sudo chmod a+x gitflow-installer.sh
• sudo chmod a+x gitflow-installer.sh
• cd /var/www/website/ (where the website files are)
• git flow init
• git remote add origin git@github.com:username/website.git
• git add *
• git commit -am “initial commit”

All files are now committed ready to push to the central repository.

Create SSH key using this tutorial - https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

Now, I'm trying to push the files to the central respository, however although the files have been pushed I got the following errors:

error: unable to create directory for .git/refs/remotes/origin/develop

error: Cannot lock the ref 'refs/remotes/origin/develop'.

Any idea why? Is this the correct setup so far?

Answer 1

"unable to create directory for .git/refs/remotes/origin/develop" means there is a permission issue to write the remote reference in your local repo initialized in /var/www/website/.

In this question for instance, the OP had to do a sudo git push.
sudo or chown are mentioned in "Problems with first upload to github".

On the remote side, as mentioned in "uploading a repository to github fails says “permission denied”", make sure to add your public ssh key to your GitHub repo.