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Asked: 2026-06-06T02:41:55+00:00

I’ve followed this tutorial ‘Using Git to manage a web site’ , using Tower

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I’ve followed this tutorial ‘Using Git to manage a web site’, using Tower to commit and push my local repo to the remote server. Pushing succeeds with the following message:

Pushing to ssh://user@mysite.com/~/git/tprevo.git
stdin: is not a tty
Counting objects: 40, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (37/37), done.
Writing objects: 100% (40/40), 171.95 KiB, done.
Total 40 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://user@mysite.com/~/git/tprevo.git
 * [new branch]      master -> production
updating local tracking ref 'refs/remotes/production/production'

Successfully created tracking connection.

I’ve verified that my post-receive hook is executing, but the checkout command doesn’t add the pushed code into what I believe I’ve set up as my working directory. I’ve been trying to figure this out all day.

post-receive:

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/tprevo/public_html/tprevo git checkout -f

I’m new to Git and very keen to learn. What’s the best way to debug this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Okay … I’ve got a similar setup … is your file executable?
    Please check the files attributes …

    ls -la post-receive

    If it’s not executable then you need to chmod it …

    sudo chmod +x post-receive

    UPDATE

    Noticing that you have a named branch you may want to be specific in the checkout command for your post-receive hook … 

    git checkout -f production
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