OK so I have a repo setup on my machine and I’m looking to use this to push updates to a location on a fileserver. I used the following to clone:
Starting in dir on machine:
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'initial'
cd ../
Then cloning onto fileserver
git clone -bare testdir fileserverip/testdir
This clones fine but how can I use GIT to update? Unlike my previous experience with GIT I’m not looking to connect over SSH or anything so how can I set up the push?
EDIT:
After modifying my setup as mentioned in the answer by Makis I get the following errors on git push
james-macbook:test2 james$ git push
Counting objects: 6, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 506 bytes, done.
Total 4 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent
remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match
remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.
remote: error:
remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to
remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into
remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you
remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some
remote: error: other way.
remote: error:
remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set
remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'.
To xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
james-macbook:test2 james$
Anyone know what this means?
EDIT: Just found this, think it’s what I need. http://tiredblogger.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/creating-local-git-repositories-yeah-its-that-simple/
Thanks
If you can mount the server directory via NFS or Samba, easy peasy. I would have created the bare repository on the server first. Then clone the empty repository on your machine and add the stuff.
After that, everything works like normal (pull, push).