Well, this post is half to test my fix, and to share the results with the world. If I’m right, this post should require no fiddling (past a simple git-push) to publish. If you ever have reason to run a git command (i.e. git-something) inside a git hook (i.e. post-receive)… make sure to manually set $GIT_DIR to the path to the relevant .git directory before doing anything else. Here’s an example, from my git-blog post-receive hook file:
#!/bin/bash
GIT_DIR=$(pwd) # Note that the hooks are run from inside the .git dir
cd ../
git-checkout -f masterAs it says, notice that the hook itself is run with pwd being the .git dir of the repository that was updated. Thus you have to cd .. before you can actually work with the repository.
Hope this helps somebody who has been as stumped as I have for the past few hours!