post-receive hook fails - any chance to see why?

Question

I\'m implementing this approach to send updates to my website:

created bare repository to push to

$ mkdir website.git && cd website.git
$ git         


        

Answer 1

From comments above about reliability of targeting specific branches - I found this gist which targets the master branch from post-receive hook.

#!/bin/bash 
set -eu

TARGET="/deployment-location-here"
GIT_DIR="/trigger-location-here"
BRANCH="master"

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
        # only checking out the master (or whatever branch you would like to deploy)
        if [[ $ref = refs/heads/"$BRANCH" ]];
        then
                echo "Ref $ref received. Deploying ${BRANCH} branch to production..."
                git --work-tree="$TARGET" --git-dir="$GIT_DIR" checkout -f
        else
                echo "Ref $ref received. Doing nothing: only the ${BRANCH} branch may be deployed on this server."
        fi
done