How can I checkout a Git repot to a remote folder?

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Given a bare repository, I can use git --work-tree=/path/to/folder --git-dir=/path/to/bare.git checkout -f in the post-receive hook to checkout the head to folder without having the .git folder inside. How can I do achieve this when the folder sits in on a remote machine?

I am aware of git clone --depth=1 but I cannot use this because the remote folder may already exist. rsync [--delete] is not an option neither because I want files that are local to each folder but not in the repo (e.g. all folders contain a different confi.local.ini).

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:22:15Z

I finally merged different solutions and now have the following in my post-receive:

function clone_dev() { # This function ssh's to a remote machine (or "localhost") and pulls the # latest changes from the bare repo without leaving traces of .git. # This approach allows to "local" files to not be overwritten. DEV_SSH=$1 # ex: "gitusr@localhost" DEV_DIR=$2 # ex: "/data/production/development" REPO_DIR_SSH=$3 # ex: "ssh://gitusr@localhost/data/bare.git" BRANCH=master echo -e "\e[1;31mDeploying to '${DEV_SSH}${DEV_DIR}' ...\e[0m" echo "" ssh "${DEV_SSH}" /bin/bash <<EOF if [[ ! -d "${DEV_DIR}" ]]; then git clone -b $BRANCH --single-branch --depth=1 "${REPO_DIR_SSH}" "${DEV_DIR}" cd $DEV_DIR git checkout -f $BRANCH else cd "${DEV_DIR}" git init git remote add -t $BRANCH origin "${REPO_DIR_SSH}" git fetch --depth=1 origin git checkout -f -t origin/$BRANCH fi cd "${DEV_DIR}" rm -rf "${DEV_DIR}"/.git EOF echo "" } ... REPO_DIR_SSH=ssh://gitusr@$HOSTNAME/$REPO_DIR # the locations of the cutting-edge systems DEVELOPMENT1_SSH=gitusr@$HOSTNAME DEVELOPMENT1_DIR=/data/production/development ... clone_dev "$DEVELOPMENT1_SSH" "$DEVELOPMENT3_DIR" "$REPO_DIR_SSH" clone_dev "$DEVELOPMENT2_SSH" "$DEVELOPMENT2_DIR" "$REPO_DIR_SSH"

Stolen partly from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22597919/2923406 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/11498124/2923406

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