From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:58:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Confusion
Message-ID: <20090529125853.GB11785@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <815c8c330905290043i4c99a753jd5ad9bdd4cf18bbc@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:43:35AM -0700, Paul Tarjan wrote:

> I'm new to git and probably doing something very dumb, but I can't
> seem to resolve this.
> 
> I have a remote repository and a local one. I ssh to the remote
> machine, goto the repository directory (not a bare repository), edit a
> file and commit it. All if fine.
> 
> I leave the remote host and go into the local git directory. Doing
> "git pull origin master" says "Already up-to-date." but there is a
> file I changed remotely, and I want to pull it locally!
> 
> The local repo was made with "git clone http://example.com/.git". I
> have no branching (both are on master).

Your repository is accessed over http.  You need to run "git
update-server-info" to build the files for clients to see the actual
updates.

Usually such a repo is bare, and gets updates only by push. In that
case, enabling the update hook to run update-server-info is sufficient.
But in your case, you are actually working on the remote repo via commit
and other means, so there is no convenient way to always
update-server-info after a change.

Is there a particular reason you cloned over http instead of over ssh?

-Peff