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sesc360
sesc360

Reputation: 3255

git-dir not working as path is not recognized

I want to use an automated push script using git and configured my post-receive hook:

#!/bin/bash
while read oldrev newrev ref
do
        if [[ $ref =~ .*/master$ ]];
        then
                echo "Master ref received. Deploying master branch to production server..."
                git --work-tree=/var/www/MFDispo --git-dir=~/Documents/MFDispo/.git checkout -f
        else
                echo "Ref $ref successfully received. Doing nothing. Only the master branch may be deployed on this server."
        fi
done

But the push is not working:

remote: Master ref received. Deploying master branch to production server...
remote: fatal: Not a git repository: '~/Documents/MFDispo/.git'

But the folder on my client contains the git repo. I see the folder within the folder structure and the git system is working as I use it throughout coding and committing.

Do I need to specify the path differently?

UPDATE

After changing the path for --git-dir to $HOME/Documents... the same error appears but I can see the path he is searching in now as well. It is /home/sesc/Documents.... But this is on my production server. I thought on the client the path is being searched by entering the path in the file?

UPDATE 2 So now I tried the following:

  1. Cloning the repository on my production server initially
  2. Changing --git-dir to: var/www/MFDispo (this is the path on the production server)
  3. Starting the same script again

Now I get the error: remote: error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database objects

do I need to chmod the folder before I can start? At least it seems better than before!

Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Views: 286

Answers (2)

antlersoft
antlersoft

Reputation: 14786

I don't think the ~ prefix is being expanded appropriately in the context where you are using it; it is expanded by bash only when bash recognizes it as the start of a word, not in the middle of an argument.

Try substituting ${HOME} instead on the relevant line:

            git --work-tree=/var/www/MFDispo --git-dir=${HOME}/Documents/MFDispo/.git checkout -f

Upvotes: 1

jwodder
jwodder

Reputation: 57460

~ only expands to your home directory when it's at the beginning of a shell word (roughly, when it's at the beginning of the line or preceded by whitespace). Thus, in --git-dir=~/Documents/MFDispo/.git, the ~ is not expanded, and so Git looks for a directory literally named ~, which (I assume) doesn't exist. You have either write out the path to your home directory in full or else replace it with the shell variable $HOME:

--git-dir=$HOME/Documents/MFDispo/.git

Upvotes: 2

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