Sort of a problem is that hooks/post-update script is never triggered. I have the following setup:
I work on a local repository and publish my changes by pushing them into a bare repository which lies on the same filesystem. The actual publishing will then require "git update-server-info" and rsync'ing the bare repository to another host which in turn serves the repo via http. (No git installed on the remote side and probably never will.)
I want to make this process automatical and I have actually done it already with hooks/post-receive. It works fine. I'm just wondering why hooks/post-update doesn't work.
The default hooks/post-update contains the line
exec git-update-server-info
So the file is sort of advertised being the "official" way of running git-update-server-info. The problem is that on my bare repository side that file never gets executed (yes, execute bits are on). I tried to put "echo" and "touch stampfile" type commands there but nothing happens.
Well, my problem was solved simply by using hooks/post-receive instead. I put the following lines there and it works great:
git update-server-info rsync --recursive --delete . remotehost:public_html/repo.git
Still I'd like to know if there is a bug in hooks/post-update triggering mechanism or did I do something wrong?