getting “fatal: not a git repository: '.'” when using post-update hook to execute 'git pull' on another repo

Question

I\'m new to git so I apologize (and please correct me) if I misuse terminology here, but I\'ll do my best.

I\'m trying to set up a bare git repo (hub) and a developm

Answer 1

You probably have a permissions issue. I'm not sure how you have setup your bare git repo, but if it's running under the git user, make sure that git user is allowed to perform the git pull in your project directory.

Optionally try this to find out what user you are when the hook is run:

echo `whoami`