Digital Ocean git bare repo - ruby-on-rails

I am trying to setup my own production environment on digital ocean with ubuntu, rails and git.
I have followed this and this tutorial among others.
They all instruct to create the repository as bare, i.e.:
mkdir site.git && cd site.git
git init --bare
Problem is that when I push from my local computer, I got the error:
This operation must be run in a work tree
I looked into it and it seems that the cause is that the repo is bare.
In my post receive file I have:
#!/bin/sh
git --work-tree=/home/rails/myapp --git-dir=/var/repo/site.git checkout -f
So I am confused. I suppose that I could initialize the repo as non bare instead. But why every tutorial suggests to initialize it as bare if then it causes that error?

If you are making a git push, you must do so from a normal git repo, meaning a local repo on your workstation (pushing indeed to a bare repo)
cd /path/to/my/local/repo
git init .
git add -A
git commit -m "my first commit"
git remote add origin /usr/bare/repo
git push -u origin master
In your case, you cannot push directly from where the post-receive hook does a checkout, unless you mention in your git push command where the git repo is (bare or not)
cd /home/rails/myapp
git --work-tree=/home/rails/myapp --git-dir=/var/repo/site.git push -u origin master
(and this assume /var/repo/site.git does include a remote named origin)

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Why can't I see my remote git repositery?

Here is what I did:
Created a Ruby on Rails app.
Initialized empty git rep
Made changes to my app and saved them (git add -A and git commit -m "blahblah")
Deployed to Heroku.
But when I visit git hub it shows zero repos?
What did I do wrong?
I think you confound github and heroku.
It's two differents repository.
Deploying to heroku with something like this:
git push heroku master
does not affect your github account.
You can have several repository for the same project.
To add a repository:
git remote add NAME_OF_YOUR_REPO URL_OF_YOUR_REPO
(you can create a project in github, and they will git you a URL_OF_YOUR_REPO)
example:
git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
after you can do:
git push origin master
and you will see your commits on github.

created bitbucket repo deleted it, created again, git remote push fails

I am using cloud9 IDE on a rails tutorial app. I created a repo and then pushed the app to the repo on bitbucket. I got messed up on the app so decided to start from beginning. I deleted the repo and worked on the app until it worked. I created another repo on bitbucket and did all commits and when I did these I got a message saying I was three or five commits ahead of remote. So when I did a push I got
git push
No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.
Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Everything up-to-date
If you don't mind starting from scratch and losing your app's history.
Create a new repo on Bitbucket.
Next, remove the .git directory from your local project.
Then initialize a new git repo locally
git init
git add --all
git commit -m "Initial commit"
On Bitbucket you'll see a screen like the one below.
Now just run the commands as exactly as it instructs
cd /path/to/my/repo
git remote add origin git#bitbucket.org:your-username/project.git
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags
Then everything should be reset without any history.

How can i sync my repository with github?

simple example,
1)made a new project
rails new test_app
2) git commands
git init
git add .
git commit -m "init"
git push origin master
ok finished!
now after this, if i look at github.com webpage gui.
it doesn't show my repository.
How can i set this to my github webpage?
First of all you need to create an repository on github. After that you need to create an ssh key with github for your pc. Befor you can push to the master branch you need to add the remote repository:
git remote add origin git#github.com:yourrepo.git
Than push "origin" to the master branch.

Issue trying to push to git repository

Problem when pushing app to github. This is what I entered into the command line. Hopefully it's just a small problem I can fix thanks.
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin git#github.com:travi5567/first_app.git
git push -u origin master
This is the error I get:
Traviss-MacBook-Pro:sample_app Travis$ git push -u origin master
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
If you don't know how to use SSH keys or would rather not you can also use the https remote like so:
git remote add origin https://travis5567#github.com/travis5567/first_app.git
git push origin master
Password for travis5567: <enter your password>
# regular output from a git push
GitHub uses SSH keys to configure access to git repositories. If you are the owner you can push to the repo but you need to tell git your SSH key so they know who you are first.
It's all explained on the GitHub website - https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

Heroku upload changes

I make some changes in local files, how can I deploy the new version?
if I type git push heroku master, it's say everything up to date, but the application wasn't changed.
You probably need to commit your changes first.
Run git commit -a -m "updated some files"
then run git push....
So you’re on a git repo with a remote repo named heroku?
Did you commit your changes, and afterwards push?
They have to be commited locally so you can push them.
When you clone a repository with git the remote repository you cloned from will be added as “origin”, then a simple git push will push to the origin.
If that’s not the case, you can use the name of another/your remote repository you added first, or it’s URL.
Also see the doc for git push: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html

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