Checkout source files from local git repo to local folder

Question

I am using Amazon Ec2 . I am trying to create a Remote Repo on the Ec2 server to which I can check in code and run my server from there .

Ec2 Server

Here is created two folders

/home/ubuntu/project.git <---- Repo
/home/ubuntu/project     <---- Source files to run server

I followed the instructions given here - http://blog.soarez.com/post/56644329478/deploy-a-node-js-service-on-ec2-with-git

Now from my local computer , I pushed the source files to project.git . It works fine . Files get pushed into the repo.

Now how do I get the files from the project.git to the project folder . I tried doing this , but it doesnt work -

cd ~/project.git
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/ubuntu/project git checkout -f

Answer 1

cd ~/project.git
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/ubuntu/project git checkout -f

This is the right way to checkout files from a bare repo.

But if the variable isn't see as exported by the git checkout command, you can wrap that in a script, like "unable to set GIT_WORK_TREE variable in a bare repository when using post_update hook" did.
That is what makes the a post-receive work, in the directory ~/project.git/hooks/.