Issue

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git shows that all desired directories/files have been successfully committed to my local master branch via:
git ls-tree -r --name-only master

This command git push -u $destination_git_branch $source_git_branch informs me that Everything up-to-date

Problem:
None of my files are actually being written to the destination repo.

Therefore, I double-checked that my git hook post-receive was executable and had the correct directory information:

git --work-tree=/home/username/public_html --git-dir=/home/username/public_html/git/production.git checkout -f

Sure this is a rookie error, but why aren’t my files actually being push the correct location?

Solution

MIND BOGGLING SOLUTION:

Being a git rookie, I suspected that maybe I had done something wrong within my .gitignore file. Therefore, I mv .gitignore .gitignore.bak and created a fresh .gitignore

BAM!!! everything worked.

At this point I ran a diff .gitignore .gitignore.bak command to see what the bad setting was…. There wasn’t a bad setting:

$ diff .gitignore .gitignore.bak
26,27c26,27
< /push-staging.sh
< /pull-staging.sh
---
> /push.sh
> /pull.sh
30c30
< /.gitignore.bak
---
> /test-push-db-import.sh
34c34
< /test-push-db-import.sh
---
> 
40a41
> #/wp-content/themes/generatepress*/

The PROBLEM seems to be that the .gitignore somehow had incorrect permissions:

$ stat .gitignore.bak 
  File: .gitignore.bak
  Size: 1210        Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 810573      Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: ( 1037/username)   Gid: ( 1036/username)
Access: 2022-09-19 11:10:00.960804347 +0800
Modify: 2022-09-19 10:32:54.604206792 +0800
Change: 2022-09-19 10:33:16.186992558 +0800
 Birth: -
$ stat .gitignore
  File: .gitignore
  Size: 1205        Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 800408      Links: 1
Access: (0660/-rw-rw----)  Uid: ( 1037/username)   Gid: ( 1036/username)
Access: 2022-09-19 11:10:00.960804347 +0800
Modify: 2022-09-19 10:57:27.408224628 +0800
Change: 2022-09-19 10:57:27.408224628 +0800
 Birth: -

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