You typically want to enable the post-update hook on the server by mv '${GITDIR}/hooks/post-update.sample' '${GITDIR}/hooks/post-update'. This makes sure that

You typically want to enable the post-update hook on the server by mv '${GITDIR}/hooks/post-update.sample' '${GITDIR}/hooks/post-update'. This makes sure that the repository works with dumb servers which is required for things like http/cgit.