Re: Howto forward workdir to HEAD

[Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup an intranet Webapp using GIT for maintanance and
> backup. First I created a git repo on my working machine and imported
> the webapp, made some changes.
>
> Then I created a normal, non-bare repo at the server and pushed from my
> local repo into the server repo, checked out branch "stable" and
> everything is fine.
>
> Now I made a local change and pushed again, but the servers workdir is
> not automatically forwarded to the pushed state. How do I forward it?

Please read http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b96f48bc9c925074be9f95c0fce69bcece5f6e73

> Can I define a Hook that automatically forwards the workdir after a
> push, but only if the workdir is clean?
>
> What do you think of this method to deploy a webapp?

Generally it is frowned upon.  The recommended way it to have a script
or build process that you run from the git repo to populate the
workdir.  In addition to the reasons mentioned in the FAQ, you
probably also don't want your live website to be updated in some
random order decided by git, but want to update it in a particular
order to stay consistent for anyone who loaded it in the middle of the
update.  This is best controlled by your makefile/script.

-Tarmigan