Git workflow - Setting up a build process

Question

Disclaimer: I\'ve been using Git for a while but still find it confusing.

I\'m setting a build process for a project and am running into a problem updating the git r

Answer 1

It is a best practice to push to a bare repo: see "concept of bare shared repository in git" and all about "bare" repos -- what, why, and how to fix a non-bare push.

Which means on your server, you need to:

• create a Git repo (you already did)
• clone that repo a bare repo (git clone --bare yourProjectFolder yourProjectFolder.git)
  (the .git extention is a naming convention for bare repo root folder)

• push to that bare repo instead:
  Go to your local repo, and type:

  git remote set-url origin /url/repo/repo/yourProjectFolder.git
  

• add a hook in the bare repo (on the server, yourProjectFolder.git/hooks/post-receive), in which you

  • change directory (to your non-bare repo folder yourProjectFolder)
  • unset GIT_DIR
  • git pull ../yourProjectFolder.git

See more at "Remote nodejs server deployment with forever".