Re: git for local web development

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 17, 2009, 11:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20090417115925.GB29121@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <135754252540163221910297561025355826788-Webmail@me.com>

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:04:10PM -0400, William DiNoia wrote:

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> I would like to be able to git-push and have the work tree updated.
>
> [...]
>
> $vim .git/hooks/post-receive
>  #!/bin/sh
>  git-checkout -f
> $chmod +x .git/hooks/post-receive
>
> [...]
>
> Counting objects: 5, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 277 bytes, done.
> Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
> To /var/www/sites/test.com/.git
>    9b490a2..5e5cc63  master -> master
> error: unable to unlink old 'index.html' (Permission denied)
> error: hooks/post-receive exited with error code 1

Well, your post-receive hook is running, and checkout is barfing with a permission denied error. Probably the repo directory is owned by www-data, and you are pushing as user "william"? What are the directory permissions like?

-Peff