GIT_WORK_TREE is not working as expected

Question

I used this link to setup git bare repo and try to have the files in web server. I wrote this line in hooks/post-receive file to update files in web server

GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/www.example.org git checkout -f

After I push the code to bare repo, I don't see files in var/www/www.example.org what would be the problem?

update: my files are in staging branch not in master . so should I do use staging in checkout

Answer 1

You should create directory before.

mkdir /var/www/www.example.org

And makesure git user have accress to this dir.

sudo chown git. /var/www/www.example.org
sudo -u git -H chmod 755 /var/www/www.example.org

Answer 2

Make sure the post-receive hook is actually being executed. You can add a echo command if you want.

The #!/bin/sh is necessary in many cases and also make sure you have marked the hook as executable.