setup git on an existing project in AWS EC2 instance

Question

Need to use version control in one of the old project which resides in Amazon EC2 instance. Steps performed:

/www/box/

1. Installed GIT on the server and initialised the folder /box/

    git init 

2. Cloned the project in local computer

3. Changed a file and tried to push but received error

    git push origin master Error: Updating the current branch in a non bare repository is denied 

4. Then created another repo folder on server and used --bare tag to initialize

    /www/repos/ git init --bare 

5. PUSH command works well on this repository

6. Then added another REMOTE URL to the old project location git remote add production ssh:---/www/box/

Questions:

• git push gives me the same error when pushing on to the production repo. How do I push to this production repo?

   git push production master Error: .... non bare repository is denied 

• found lots of tutorial using HOOKS, still confused if using HOOKS is a normal method to push in GIT

Answer 1

In order to push to a remote repository you need two things:

1) The remote repository should be init with the --bare

2) You need to add the remote repository to your local git with "git add remote"

You don't need hooks for a normal push operation.