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Pull files into web dir from git repo

I've seen many pages and posts about this and not one of them works on my Digital Ocean droplet.

I have a live rails app deployed with Capistrano, which means I had to push it to the server with Git before deploying. So Git works. Yet, now I want to update the site with some changes and while the remote repo is up to date (verified with git log), the web directory is not up to date.

I know I need to get the new files across to that dir, but how?

hooks/post-receive:

#!/bin/sh
git checkout -f

Nada. I also ran sudo ./post-receive, just to be sure the post-receive hook executed (yes, it is executable). No output. Just another CLI prompt.

Why is it so ridiculously difficult to get a folder to contain the latest git push??

Solution

  • You are missing an unset GIT_DIR line, assuming your hook is in a bare repository (one without checked out files) in myrepo.git/hooks

    #!/bin/sh
unset GIT_DIR
cd /path/to/checkout/repository
git pull
git checkout -f

    The unset will make sure Git will consider your checked out repository as the current one (instead of the bare repo)