git pull files from a bare repo

Question

I have a bare repository in my remote server. Files get uploaded on the remote server, now I would like to sync or pull those uploaded files to my local repository.

I usually run git push website in order to deploy my local committed files, now I would like to do the opposite. How can I do this?

Thanks

Do you mean that users upload files to the web server, and they get saved to the file system, and now you want to retrieve them using git? — Ryan Stewart
– Ryan Stewart, Commented Jul 27, 2011 at 23:22
that's right, basically bring those files to my local server/repository. — MikeJ
– MikeJ, Commented Jul 27, 2011 at 23:23
right, if I do git pull website I get: Already up-to-date, and I think this is due to the same reason Ryan mentioned. Are there any other solutions to this? — MikeJ
– MikeJ, Commented Jul 27, 2011 at 23:44

DSchultz · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-27 23:24:17Z

You can do this by running git pull GIT_SOURCE where GIT_SOURCE is in the form [email protected]:facebook/credits-api-sample.git

Ryan Stewart · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-27 23:21:33Z

If I understand this, then what you're trying to do isn't possible. A bare repo is characterized by not having a working copy in the file system. Therefore no file on the disk of a bare repo can be part of the repo, and you can't pull it as a result. If it were a non-bare repo and files were uploaded into the directory where the working copy is checked out, you'd still have to add and commit the file(s) there before you'd be able to pull them from somewhere else.

Benjamin Bannier · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-27 23:24:10Z

Use git pull (manpage).

$ git pull REPO_URL

What $REPO_URL is depends on your setup. Maybe

$ git remote show website

will give you a clue.

andrefy · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-05 04:27:34Z

what you have to do is a pull of you bare repository, here is an example

at your website host you have two repositories

repository_bare.git (bare repository)
repository_webapp (non-bare repository)

at your local copy - local_repository

1) you push at your local_repository and upload the modifications at your repository_bare.git 2) you pull the repository_bare.git from local_repository

git pull repository_bare.git

This will merge the modifications from your bare to your local repository

Here is a link with more information http://book.git-scm.com/3_distributed_workflows.html

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