Update working copy on push without touching several files

Alex Amiryan· Oct 20, 2009, 14:43 UTC · lore

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Hello. I am a web site developer. My team is developing web sites locally using git. Online versions of websites are maintained with git too. I need to have working copy of my remote git repository (online version of the site) updated by git push (which I do locally). The problem is that I have some files there (like database config) that have to be different from local ones and they must not be updated on git push. I have made "git update-index --assume-unchanged incs/config.db.php" but they are not being updated only when I do "git pull" remotely. I have used some post-update hooks which I found on the net, but they all do "git reset --hard HEAD" which restores my config files. Can you please help me to write post-update hook which updates remote working copy but doesn't touch my assume-unchanged marked files.

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Thomas Rast· Oct 20, 2009, 16:45 UTC · re: Alex Amiryan · lore

Re: Update working copy on push without touching several files

Alex Amiryan wrote:

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> Online versions of websites are maintained with git
> too. I need to have working copy of my remote git repository (online
> version of the site) updated by git push (which I do locally). The
> problem is that I have some files there (like database config) that have
> to be different from local ones and they must not be updated on git
> push.

My best results so far were with special config branches that are auto-merged in post-receive. As a simple example, post-receive might simply be

  #!/bin/sh

  git checkout -f master^0
  git merge config

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