Git Post Receive Hook: update current working branch to staging server

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So, I have a staging server setup, and what I would like to do is when someone pushes to a non master branch update what the staging server's directory. My current post-receive hook looks like:

echo "post hook is on the run!" while read oldrev newrev ref do echo "$ref" done unset $(git rev-parse --local-env-vars) cd ../staging/bikereport git fetch git pull origin $ref echo "Post receive finsihed"

However I am not seeing the changes I would like on the server, and remote returns "Already up-to-date" which makes me think it's pulling from Master or something?

This isn't an elegant solution, but we are a very small team working on a single project. An ideal solution would be to save every branch to a new directory within the staging server and then update only that directory per push.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:58:38Z

cd ../staging/bikereport git fetch

Beware: your git directory is not your staging/bikereport repo.
It is still the one where the hook is running.

You need to set GIT_DIR to /full/path/ofstaging/bikereport/.git (and to be sure, set GIT_WORK_TREE to /full/path/ofstaging/bikereport) in order for commands run from that repo to work.
And you need to unset GIT_INDEX_FILE!

See "Why doesn't setting GIT_WORK_TREE work in a post-commit hook?" for more details.

You hook should start with:

#!/bin/sh unset GIT_INDEX_FILE export GIT_WORK_TREE=/full/path/ofstaging/bikereport/ export GIT_DIR=/full/path/ofstaging/bikereport/.git/

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