Git - Automatic pulling in server

Question

I'm desperately trying to prepare a correct environment for a new project. We plan to work locally with Xampp with my team and then push everything on a testing server, so I've started to learn git and its specificities.

When I try to push everything is ok, but then I want my server to automatically pull the updated files where it was cloned. So I created a post-update file which is like this.

#!/bin/bash

echo "Mise en production..."

cd /home/test/public_html/
unset GET_DIR

git fetch origin master

The problem is I get this error

remote: Mise en production...
remote: fatal: Not a git repository: '.'

Is there a better solution that would be efficient ?

Thanks everyone.

Invest some time into using CI tools like Jenkins and get your CI pipeline up and running to handle the builds. — Grinch91, Apr 21 '17 at 10:39
You could take a look at Git's hooks - https://git-scm.com/book/gr/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks - which can perform actions in different states e.g. pre-commit, post-commit, etc — Emil Bækdahl, Apr 21 '17 at 10:43
@Emil It looks like OP is in fact already using a hook, namely the post-receive one :-) — Just a student, Apr 21 '17 at 10:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 10:44

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Your attempted solution works, but you have overlooked one detail.

When changing into /home/test/public_html/, you need to realize that this directory is not a Git repository and hence, you cannot fetch into it. To make this work, execute the following once.

$ cd /home/test/public_html
$ git init
$ git remote add origin [path/to/git/repo]

After that, you'll be able to git fetch and git pull in /home/test/public_html.

The [path/to/git/repo] should be a relative or absolute path to the directory that contains your repository. This is the directory that has directories branches, hooks, info, et cetera.

answered Apr 21 '17 at 10:44

Just a student

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After avis done this `$ cd public_html $ ls $ git init Dépôt Git vide initialisé dans /home/test/public_html/.git/ $ git remote add origin /home/test/.git` Still got the error : `remote: fatal: Not a git repository: '.'` – 3615_Internet Apr 21 '17 at 13:19
What happens if you execute a fetch or pull in the `public_html` directory? Does that give an error? – Just a student Apr 21 '17 at 13:37
Pulling works fine ! But the automated hook on the original repo sends me a Samuel L. Jackson error! – 3615_Internet Apr 21 '17 at 13:42
Interesting. Which hook are you using exactly? post-receive? – Just a student Apr 21 '17 at 14:01
Can you try post-receive instead? – Just a student Apr 21 '17 at 14:16
Weird, it's not in the hooks directory. Hooray to the unfaitfhul friday ! – 3615_Internet Apr 21 '17 at 14:20
I'm afraid I don't understand. Did it help? – Just a student Apr 21 '17 at 14:25
Can you create it? What version of Git are you using? – Just a student Apr 21 '17 at 14:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '17 at 05:49

It seems you need that after the local repo changes are pushed to a testing server, then you also want the local changes are pushed to your server. So you can use post-update hook to do that:

In the testing server, edit the contents of hooks/post-update file as below:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Mise en production..."
branch=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's,.*/\(.*\),\1,')
git push -u /path/for/your/server $branch
echo "push to my server "

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