Question

I have set up a website on a server and use git to maintain it. For this reason I have created two git repositories, a bare one at $HOME/site to which I push and a non-bare one at /var/www which is supposed to pull from the bare repository every time a change is made.

In order to update the non-bare repository automatically, I have created and granted executon permission to a post-update git hook in the bare repository that contains the following:

#!/bin/bash

cd /var/www
git pull

However, after every push to the bare repository I can see the following on my terminal:

remote: fatal: Not a git repository: '.'

Is there anything I have omitted or done wrong regarding this hook?

Answer 1

Try this. Add this line to your hook script before you do the git pull command:

unset $(git rev-parse --local-env-vars)

This will unset all GIT_XXX_YYY environment variables.