Git post-fetch hook doesn't work after push
I have a website hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance (running Ubuntu 12.04). I want to be able to push changes to the server using git and then use a post-receive hook to checkout in the working directory. So on the server, in the hooks directory, I have a file called post-receive containing:
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/ubuntu/beta git checkout -f
The file has permissions: -rwxrwxr-x (i.e. it is executable).
On my local machine, when I push to a git repo on the server, the push succeeds and the git repository is updated. However, the hook does not start after receiving. If I run the hook manually, it works fine and updates the working directory.
The git push is done over SSH and uses the same user as if I ran the hook manually.
Any ideas why the hook isn't starting automatically?
Thank.
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I have installed a local identical test (i.e. I cloned from a local folder) and it works fine.
To see if the script is being executed at all, I added a simple tap to see if it modifies any files.
My post-trick looks like this
#!/bin/sh
touch /Users/raven/git_tests/live/.git/hooks/i_ve_been_run
GIT_WORK_TREE=/Users/raven/git_tests/live git checkout -f
Make sure your hook is named accurately post-receive
or it won't work.
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