Git Fetch fails to work on bare repo, but git pull works on normal repo

Question

First, the big picture: I\'m trying to write a git post-receive script for a Redmine / Gitolite server I\'m running. As per various recommendations, I\'m creating a bare and loc

Answer 1

Your fetch hasn't updated the master branch, only FETCH_HEAD (see "What does FETCH_HEAD in Git mean?").

As mentioned in "how do I pull to a bare repository?", you should do a:

git fetch origin master:master

Or, for all the branches:

git fetch origin +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

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Colin D Bennett added:

If you want to fetch these on a regular basis, you should consider:

git config remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

which will allow you to type git fetch to sync your branches with the remote.
Note that this make sense only in a bare repository where local branches are not supposed to be edited.