cannot see updates in Git remote repository

Question

I have created a remote git repository on a remote server in this place: /home/mysite/public_html/git/mysite.git and set /home/mysite/public_html as a remote working directory specified.

On my local machine I successfully cloned the repository with git clone http://user@mysite.com/git/mysite.git and pushed a test file in it:

git add test.txt
git commit -am "test update"
git push origin master

The operation shows no errors - it seems to be updating local repository, however, I cannot find any files in the remote repository and neither in the working directory.

Another thing - if I delete my local repository and clone it again from the server, the text file comes along, meaning it is stored somewhere in the remote repository, just not where I need it. What could be wrong with my setup?

Local log shows commits, remote shows error: `fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'` — Deez, May 24 '13 at 12:53
this is the answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6373277/git-sync-local-repo-with-remote-one — Dmitry Zagorulkin, May 24 '13 at 12:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '13 at 13:37

You might have created you remote repository with this command :

git init --bare

If that is the case, this repo is not an ordinary repo, as you can't work in it. But it will work perfectly as a remote repo, and you can clone, pull, fetch etc...

If you didn't use the --bare option, your remote repo work as all other repos, you have to do a pull to get your updates :

git pull

cannot see updates in Git remote repository

1 Answers1