Question

ON A SERVER

• I created a git repo in the working
  directory of my web-app /html.

• To create a git ‘host’ repo, I ran
  git clone --bare html html.git.

• I now have a git ‘host’ repo and a
  git ‘client’ repo on the remote
  server at /html.git (host) & /html
  (client).

I want to push from my local machine to the server and not have to do a git pull ON THE SERVER.

ON MY LOCAL MACHINE

When I push from my local machine to the remote ‘host’ repo, I want to use the post-receive hook to run a git pull on the remote ‘client’ repo.

Is this possible or is this the easiest way of doing this?

Going to be trying to use this method: http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

Answer 1

It should be possible. The git hooks are just ordinary scripts that are given some useful arguments, so (assuming the git user has access to both repos) you should be able to do something like:

cd /path/to/client/repo && git pull host master