GIT post-receive checkout without root folder

Question

I\'m new to git, trying to figure out how to have a website updated with each push by doing a checkout to the web root. I have searched stackoverflow and only found topics a

Answer 1

If:

• /path/to/website/httpdocs is a git repo
• /path/to/project_root is a git repo (i.e. there is a .git directory)

Then you can use in your post-receive hook:

git --git-dir=/path/to/project_root/.git --work-tree=/path/to/website/httpdocs checkout -f

But if you are pushing to project_root, it is rather a bare repo, in which case, its root directory should be called /project_root.git, and the post-receive hook would look like:

git --git-dir=/path/to/project_root.git --work-tree=/path/to/website/httpdocs checkout -f

In any case, project_root must be the root of a git repo.

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The OP choppingblock comments:

it seems that the problem is caused by the eclipse git plugin (EGit), which automatically creates a root folder with the name of the project.
I now worked around it by changing the path to the webroot from /path/to/website/httpdocs to /path/to/website/httpdocs/project_root.