Re: Issue updating files during a checkout from a remote push

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Steve Walker wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Hoping someone could point me in the right direction here.
> 
> The overall issue is that with files that have been pushed into our repo 
> on our server, when we then check out into local working copy the new 
> files appear, but the updated files dont update even though the output 
> suggests it has. The flow I'm doing:
> 
> 1. The file I'm testing an update to is this:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    www-data       0 2008-11-06 16:13 
> steve-git-test3.txt
> 
> 2. On my local box I change file, add it, commit, then push it from my 
> local box to our server repo:
> 
> StevePoota:public_html steve$ vi steve-git-test3.txt
> StevePoota:public_html steve$ git add steve-git-test3.txt
> StevePoota:public_html steve$ git commit
> Created commit e29b724: testing only
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> StevePoota:public_html steve$ git push 
> ssh://idibu.com/home/beta_idibu/public_html master:master
> Counting objects: 5, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 272 bytes, done.
> Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
> To ssh://idibu.com/home/beta_idibu/public_html
>    a28332a..e29b724  master -> master
> 
> 3. It all looks good, on my server if i do a 'git log' I can see in the 
> latest update:
> 
> oneworld:/home/beta_idibu/public_html# git log
> commit e29b7246beab458d6a7b53cb245a5596adc8c198
> Author: Steve <steve@StevePoota.local>
> Date:   Thu Nov 6 17:55:21 2008 +0100
> 
>     testing only
> 
> 4. So I check out:
> 
> oneworld:/home/beta_idibu/public_html# git checkout master
> M    .gitignore
> M    steve-git-test.txt
> M    steve-git-test2.txt
> M    steve-git-test3.txt
> Already on branch "master"
> oneworld:/home/beta_idibu/public_html#
> 
> and its telling me that file has been modified
> 
> but checking my file it hasnt changed by date stamp, and looking insie 
> the file my changes arent there :((
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    www-data       0 2008-11-06 16:13 
> steve-git-test3.txt
> 
> I'm stumped. I tried 777'ing that file temporarily in case git couldnt 
> write to that file on checkout. What is strange is that when I add new 
> files to the system it works - for example this file I'm testing no was 
> originally added to the server via an external push.
> 
> If anyone could give me some help I'd be very grateful.
> 

git reset --hard master

Note that it's definitely not a good idea to push into a non-bare repo
where you modify the worktree, as the workflow requires that you simply
clobber them (or work on a separate branch and then merge with master,
but then you'll have to know *why* things happen and how to fix them).

You'd probably be better off pushing to another repository and fetching
from that other repo into the non-bare one you're using now.

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