Run git commands on remote working tree (GIT_WORK_TREE=/path)

Question

I have a bare git repo set up which runs a post-update hook as follows:

GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/code git checkout -f

This works well when pu

Answer 1

To checkout a tag on the remote side, you need to push it first:

git push --tags

As mentioned in "With GitHub how do I push all branches when adding an existing repo?", even git push --all wouldn't push your tags, only all refs under refs/heads/.