When you push to a (shared) git repository, it doesn't update that repository's working files. Basically because the working files might be dirty and in that case you'd have to merge--- and for that you need to have full shell access there, which may not be the case in general.
If you want to have the most recent "master" of the shared repo checked out somewhere, you can arrange for that by writing a post-update hook. I'll give an example of one below that I use to check out the "ui" subdirectory and make it available to Apache.
However, I will say that I think your process could be improved. Developers generally need personal servers that they can test on before pushing to a shared point: otherwise that shared repo is likely to be hideously unreliable. Consider, if I push a change to it and it doesn't work, is that my change that broke it or a side-effect of someone else's?
OK, I use this as a post-update hook:
#!/bin/sh
# Should be run from a Git repository, with a set of refs to update from on the command line.
# This is the post-update hook convention.
info() {
echo "post-update: $@"
}
die() {
echo "post-update: $@" >&2
exit 1
}
output_dir=..
for refname in "$@"; do
case $refname in
refs/heads/master)
new_tree_id=$(git rev-parse $refname:ui)
new_dir="$output_dir/tree-$new_tree_id"
if [ ! -d "$new_dir" ]; then
info "Checking out UI"
mkdir "$new_dir"
git archive --format=tar $new_tree_id | ( cd $new_dir && tar xf - )
fi
prev_link_target=$(readlink $output_dir/current)
if [ -n "$prev_link_target" -a "$prev_link_target" = "tree-$new_tree_id" ]; then
info "UI unchanged"
else
rm -f $output_dir/current
ln -snf "tree-$new_tree_id" "$output_dir/current"
info "UI updated"
title=$(git show --quiet --pretty="format:%s" "$refname" | \
sed -e 's/[^A-Za-z][^A-Za-z]*/_/g')
date=$(git show --quiet --pretty="format:%ci" "$refname" | \
sed -e 's/\([0-9]*\)-\([0-9]*\)-\([0-9]*\) \([0-9]*\):\([0-9]*\):\([0-9]*\) +0000/\1\2\3T\4\5\6Z/')
ln -s "tree-$new_tree_id" "$output_dir/${date}__${title}"
fi
;;
esac
done
As mentioned, this just checks out the "ui" subdirectory. That's the ":ui" bit setting new_tree_id. Just take the ":ui" out (or change to "^{tree}") to check out everything.
Checkouts go in the directory containing the git repo, controlled by output_dir. The script expects to be running inside the git repo (which in turn is expected to be bare): this isn't very clean.
Checkouts are put into "tree-XXXX" directories and a "current" symlink managed to point to the most recent. This makes the change from one to another atomic, although it's unlikely to take so long that it matters. It also means reverts reuse the old files. And it also means it chews up disk space as you keep pushing revisions...
