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POCannot git clone a folder on a server and then edit and git push?
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copied!<p>I used Mercurial (Hg) before, and it was ok to do something like at the local PC:</p> <pre><code>hg clone ssh://peter@hostingcompany.com/~/mysite.com </code></pre> <p>and then will have a local folder called <code>mysite.com</code>, and I can edit its content, commit, and say <code>hg push</code> and push it to the server. Of course, to have the content show up in the "working directory", I will have to <code>ssh</code> there and do an <code>hg up</code>.</p> <p>With Git, if I do the same, at the server, do a</p> <pre><code>git init git add . git commit -m "ok" </code></pre> <p>and at the local PC, do a</p> <pre><code>git clone ssh://peter@hostingcompany.com/~/mysite.com </code></pre> <p>but when I edit a file and <code>git push ssh://peter@foo.com/~/mysite.com master</code>, then it will refuse it, because it is not a "bare repository".</p> <p>Is there a way to</p> <ol> <li>Push it anyway, like Hg?</li> <li>Or, better yet, push it and have it automatically do something like <code>hg up</code> -- is it <code>git checkout</code>, so that the content is immediately visual on mysite.com (using any web browser anywhere).</li> </ol> <hr> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p>It seems that the usual practice is to push to a bare repo... but can we not use a bare repo and make (2) above work? If it is a practical way, then we don't have to stick to the "push to bare repo" rule?</p> <p>If there are other reason still to push to a bare repo and clone on the server... then:</p> <p>if the server had directories such as <code>~/mysite.com</code> and <code>~/other_folder</code> etc, then where should the repo for <code>mysite.com</code> sit? <code>mysite.com</code> is the content of the website, so if I put an <code>index.html</code>, then any browser in the world can see it. So is it good to create a bare repo, let <code>~/mysite.com</code> clone from it, and on the local PC, use <code>git push <path> master; ssh <path> "cd to that folder and do git checkout to update the content"</code> automatically by 1 line on the local PC? Will the line be <code>git push ssh://peter@hostingcompany.com/~/mysite.com master; ssh ssh://peter@hostingcompany.com/~/mysite.com 'git pull; git checkout'</code> ?</p>

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