It seems something has change and I no longer can do git pull (in order to fetch latest code to deploy):
kartik@deployment-sca02:~$ cd /srv/deployment/cxserver/deploy kartik@deployment-sca02:/srv/deployment/cxserver/deploy$ git pull error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied
All files in the repo is owned by 'deploy-service'. And, I'm not in that group yet.