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Håkon Hægland
Håkon Hægland

Reputation: 40718

Transfer a git repository to a web server

I am trying to transfer a local git repository to a web server. I followed the approach here: Git: move existing repository from PC to server, clone from server

First I initialized an empty repository on my local machine, and added two files and did a commit. Then on the server I created a folder /www/git, and changed to that directory and did

git init --shared --bare

Then on the local machine I run

git remote add server [email protected]:/www/git

Then I did 

git push server master

which gave output like:

Counting objects: 4, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 2.13 KiB, done.
Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:/www/git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

However on the server, I cannot see any of the two files I added on local machine. If I do ls in /www/git I get:

HEAD  branches  config  description  hooks  info  objects  refs

but none of these are none of these files and directories are the one I pushed from my local machine.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 273

Answers (1)

user229044
user229044

Reputation: 239240

That's the point of a bare repository. It has no working directory, and no branch checked out. It's just the .git directory. It's meant to facilitate pushing and pulling, but not working with the files themselves.

If you want to actually work with the files on the server, you should checkout a non-bare copy of the repo somewhere else on the server. Then your client and server can continue to share code by pushing/pulling from the bare repo.

Upvotes: 6

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