From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:35:03 GMT
Subject: Re: post-receive for web deployment
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_hjncBxdh4+UXAJbtJnsPWZUpWASyixG8eNcpFLMRpLgw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Stephen Major <smajor@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some difficulty understanding what I am doing wrong when
> working with git to deploy a website through the use of a post-receive
> hook on the remote.

The most common issue I have seen in cases like this is that you need
to 'unset GIT_DIR'.  In fact, anytime you play around with running
stuff from *inside* a hook that works fine when you run it from
outside, you need to check what GIT_ variables are present.

I believe 'unset `git rev-parse --local-env-vars`' is a good idea too;
probably much simpler.