Using GIT to update scripts at enduser?

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Heyas

Been playing a little with GIT, but since i only use it for a single-person-project, i'm far away of beeing used to it, as there are not many 'issues' showing up.

Anyway, so far i had figured that:
1) push uploads files
2) pull downloads 'git-history'
3) checkout overwrites/restore files from local git-history

So to achieve an update at the enduser, as long they have git installed, i would do it like (pseudo-code):

#PSEUDO-CODE
for each module;   do
      update module history with pull
      checkout files of module
done

Do you think this is a propper approach, or is there a better solution i havent thought of yet?

Thank you in advance!

---------- Post added at 03:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ----------

As i thought, i'm running into issues due to the lack of experience

Error message:

udpate: core.... 
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount parent /usr)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount parent /usr)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
udpate: lfs....
fatal: Invalid refspec '/usr/.scripts/sc/collection/lfs'
udpate: set....
fatal: Invalid refspec '/usr/.scripts/sc/collection/set'
udpate: sup....
fatal: Invalid refspec '/usr/.scripts/sc/collection/sup'

Code Segment:

updatecollection() { folder=$1
        #testi=$(git --version) || echo "GIT is not installed, please install it and try again." && return 1
        for m in core lfs set sup QUIT ; do
            test "QUIT" = "$m" && break
            
            case $m in
                core)   echo "udpate: $m.... "
                        cd $folder
                        git init # seems to 'help'
                        git pull git://git.code.sf.net/p/seasc/core/sc-core  $folder  
                        git checkout -f
                        ;;
                *)      echo "udpate: $m...."
                        cd $folder/collection/$m
                        git init # init
                        git pull git://git.code.sf.net/p/seasc/sc-$m/sc-$m $folder/collection/$m 
                        git checkout -f  
                        ;;
            esac
        done
    }
updatecollection /path/to/script-collection

Ok, so my script source code is located on a seperate partition...

/dev/sda7 /usr/.scripts           xfs     defaults        1 2

How is that influencing the git repo, as the scripts and its module all reside in a subfolder of the script partition?

EDIT:
Heck, i even start the script from inside that partition

EDIT 2:
* An easy to read introduction of GIT by Eli M. Dow of IBM: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-git/
* A very technical explanation of GIT checkout by Linus Torvalds: http://linux.die.net/man/1/git-checkout
These two helped me to pass the first few issues i'd faced.
The 'best' article i've found regarding the cross-partition issue is this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...-and-macfusion.

EDIT 3:
Ok, using GIT INIT after i changed to the folders, seem to help if the scripts were downloaded as tarball.
However, this brings up a new issue

udpate: core....
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref /home/simon/sc
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
udpate: lfs....
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref /home/simon/sc/collection/lfs
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
....
....

EDIT 4:
What confused me the most, i dont even use branches...well, only master...

EDIT 5:
Grr, cant upload code, as i got hit by the 3.2.2-1 wifi bug, and since it didnt happen until now, had deleted the old kernels

[sanhozay]

Did you consider just cloning the repository initially and then using pull to drag down updates?

$ git clone <location of your scripts>

// Some time later when the scripts are updated ...

$ git pull

I didn't notice the official Git tutorial in your reading list but it's very accessible and worth a read, especially the section on collaboration. You can view it as a manual page:

$ man gittutorial