Error "fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository" in Bitbucket Cloud pipelines

Summary

The error message "fatal: detected dubious ownership in the repository" typically indicates a problem with the ownership or permissions of some files or directories within your Git repository. This can happen when Git detects inconsistencies in ownership information between different files or directories.

Solution

• Add a line in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml to check the current user that is running the build step. If this is not the root user - either change to root or ensure write permissions are present for the current user.

  1 whoami

• You can try adding the following lines to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml to either change ownership of the build directory to the current user or add an exception for the build directory.

  1 2 chown -R <username> /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build git config --global --add safe.directory /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build