Just got gitolite installed on my webserver and am trying to get a post-receive hook that can point the git dir in apache's direction.

This is what my post-receive hook looks like. Got this script from the Using Git to manage a web site.

#!/bin/sh
echo "post-receive example.com triggered"
GIT_WORK_TREE=/srv/sites/example.com/public git checkout -f

This is the error response i'm getting back from git push origin master from my local workstation. These are files from within my repository.

remote: post-receive example.com triggered
remote: error: unable to create file .htaccess (Permission denied)
remote: error: unable to create file .tm_sync.config (Permission denied)
remote: fatal: cannot create directory at 'application': Permission denied

Permissions of public.

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 26 17:23 public