Trouble deploying to EC2 instance from a git repository

<p><strong>Q: What was the request about? </strong><br>Attempts to upload files from GIT to an Amazon EC2 instance of CentOS was failing without much info.<br><br><strong>Q: How did you help with the request?</strong><br>Walked through troubleshooting and tracking down where the problem was occuring. &nbsp;We found that there was a sneaky permissions issue that was the culprit.<br><br><strong>Q: Any best practices &amp; key learnings you can share?</strong></p><p><strong>Watch out for permissions settings. &nbsp;They are all over the place and need to be configured correctly. &nbsp;</strong></p>