git checkout - Git hook creation - You are on a branch yet to be born

Question

So im setting up a git and following this guide http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto.

I get as far as this command:

# GIT_WORK_TREE=/home3/trncprop/public_html/tpcapp git checkout -f

And get the following error message

fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance! Littleswany

Answer 1

That command is supposed to be in a hook, not to be executed directly in website.git

$ cat > hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/www.example.org git checkout -f
$ chmod +x hooks/post-receive

That means you need to create a website.git/hooks/post-receive file, with that command in it, and make it executable.

That will allow you to push commits top that bare repo (website.git), which will trigger the post-receive hook, and will checkout the repo content into a different working tree.