By tradition, git repositories take one of two forms.
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Looking at asdf, I see
public_html/ asdf.git/ internal-git-files... checked-out-files... non-git-files...
The goal is / was to have asdf.git be a bare git repo (in fact, I thought it was!). The files in public_html aren't really "checked out", they are rsynced there as part of the generated website. Aside from having the same names, is there a reason to think that they are checked out? So I think what I want things to look like is
public_html/ asdf.git a bare repo (internal files) other files for the website
Thus when asdf.git/hooks/post-update runs (see below), it fails since many git operations cannot find the git repository. If you edit asdf.git/config to say "bare = true", then this problem should be resolved. You may also want to manually delete the checked out files from public_html.
thanks for this information.
As regarding post-update, see `man githooks` on how to enable this and what it does. After enabling it, cd back to asdf.git and run it manually; the http update should then work properly.
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