I have setup a git repository in an aws instance. I mounted a volume and set up a git repository there. I have a website in /var/www/html (Different volume mounted on same instance) where my websites actual code resides. After I commit git repository it goes in the repository.
How can I send/copy/move the code in /var/www/html?
You need to check out the code from git into /var/www/html.
You can write a script (bash/python or whatever you like) to copy from /where/your/repo/lives to /var/www/html. You may have to do a git pull to make sure /where/your/repo/lives is up to date, if it's a checked out version of your repo.
Alternatively you could setup the repo on /var/www and do a 'git pull' to update the files.
If you use an online repo they may have a feature to do this for you by ssh'ing into the machine and running the commands for you.
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I'm getting this error when I try to git clone my Bitbucket repo from my remote Digital Ocean server. The server directory I'm trying to clone the repo into is not empty, as I'm setting up my Django project in it (env, static, manage.py etc are all in there). So how do I clone the repo into this directory that is not empty?
I've already tried a reccommended answer which said use git fetch and git checkout -t origin/master -f - and that didn't work - I got this error:
fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists
Any suggestions what I can do?
If I understand well, you have a folder in which you already have files that will be part of what you will clone.
What you can do is :
Initialize your folder as a GIT repository
git init
Stash all your files in your folder
git stash save -u
Add your remote repository URL
git remote add myremotepository git#github.com:X/Y.git
Pull the stuff :)
git pull myremoterepository master
Reapply the files you stashed
git stash pop (or git stash apply if you want them to still be in the stash memory)
Make sure the name of the project on your computer is different from the repo name. If they are the same, cloning will be impossible. E.g you could name your repo as project_java and the actual name of the project on your computer could be project
I'm using git pull origin master to pull my Bitbucket repo onto my Digital Ocean Django server directory (which already has some folders for Django like env and static) . When I do this it says Already up-to-date. but the repo didn't come through? I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting what git pull does but I assumed it took the contents of mu repo and merged with my current directory. If this isn't true, can somebody explain what other command I should do to achieve this?
Have you set the origin at the first place, from where you want to pull the git repo. If not, then you should set the origin, first.
git remote add origin <link to your git repository>
for eg., git remote add origin https://github.com/gitaccname/gitproject.git
or, git remote add origin git#github.com:gitaccname/gitproject.git
After that, you can pull your git repository into whichever server you like, using the command.
git pull origin master
I am new to GIT hub version Controlling System.
I am working on a project which i downloaded as zip from GIT hub. It is not a git repository. What i want to do is that I want to make it a git repository and want to pull the existing git repository in it when issuing a git pull command.
I want to create my own Development Branch, develop code on local, push code to github, then do a pull request
Help will be highly appreciated.
Since you don't have any history of your changes to preserve I think your best bet is to clone the repo normally, and then copy your changes into that repository. Your question is a bit sparse on details, but something like the following should work
git clone <git hub project> <new folder on your system>
# maybe you can use a tag here for the SHA
git checkout -b my_branch SHA_THAT_REPRESENTS_YOUR_ZIP_DOWNLOAD
cp -r <your existing directory> <your new git repository>
git status # abort if this step doesn't look right
git add # add all your changed files
git commit # commit your work
git rebase <main dev branch> # catch up
I am using webfaction for my web deployment.
I have a Django app at: webapps/django_app/project_name/
I have a Git repo at: webapps/git_app/repos/my_repo.git
my_repo.git is a bare repository. It is not a working directory.
whenever I push from my local development computer to the remote (webfaction --> my_repo.git), I want my django_app to get the pushed code.
I followed this post which works fine. But no explanation of how this works is given.
I have added these two lines in post_recieve hook in my_repo.git.
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/username/webapps/django/myproject git checkout -f
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/username/webapps/django/myproject git reset --hard
what does this two lines actually do?
Moreover, my Djangoapp folder is not a git repo. still whenever push is made to my_repo.git, Djangoapp gets updated. so how does it work?
When you are managing files locally with .git, you typically have two things:
Your git repository, which is contained in the .git directory, and
Your work tree, which is the set of files you are actually editing.
By default, the repository is a subdirectory of the work tree, but this is not a requirement. Setting the GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable directs git to use a different location for your checkout out files.
So the first line...
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/username/webapps/django/myproject git checkout -f
...is asking git to check out the HEAD of the repository into /home/username/webapps/django/myproject.
The second line...
GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/username/webapps/django/myproject git reset --hard
...makes sure that /home/username/webapps/django/myproject does not have any local changes. reset --hard discards any changes to files that are tracked by git. By "local changes" I mean any changes that you or someone else has made to files in this directory; ideally, there won't be any, but if there were some there, reset -f makes sure that the modified files are overwritten with the version of the file stored in the repository.
For more details on any of the commands listed here, try running git <command> --help for the man page, or see The Git Book.
I've linked a git branch to my Elastic Beanstalk environment and using git aws.push it deploys correctly.
I've now added a .extensions directory which contains a config script which should be creating a couple of directories. However, nothing appears to be happening.
I understand that the .extensions directory should be copied across to the ec2 instance as well but I'm not seeing it.
I've checked eb-tools.log and it's not mentioned in the upload.
Is there something additional that's required?
The script contains:
commands:
cache:
command: mkdir /tmp/cache
items:
command: mkdir /tmp/cache/items
chmod:
command: chmod -R 644 /tmp
You can find the run logs for this at /var/log/cfn-init.log.
In here I could see that the mkdir commands had worked initially but subsequently failed as the directory already existed.
Turns out that eb extensions run commands in alphabetical order so I had to change the commands to:
01command1:
02command2:
etc.
From this point on it worked fine.
Something else that was confusing me is that the .ebextensions directory in my local git repo was not appearing on the target instance directory. this is because once it's been run it will delete the directory.
Double check that your local script file has a .config extension. I was having a similar problem because my local file was called .ebextensions/01_stuff.yaml and it was fixed once I renamed it to .ebextensions/01_stuff.config.