I created Git remote to push commits to a Github repository (github) and to a bare repository (droplet) that automatically deploy code to /var/www/myapp thanks to Git hooks.

The idea is to enter git push droplet and git push github to push commits in the server (droplet) and to the central repo (github).

Now, when I enter git push droplet it push the commits to the server but when I enter git push github it says there is nothing to commit because the branch is up-to-date, but it’s not. I checked the Github repository and see that the last commit is 4 months old.

How could I update the code base in my Github account ?

Git remote

$ git remote -v
droplet admin@droplet-myapp:/home/admin/repo/MyApp.git (fetch)
droplet admin@droplet-myapp:/home/admin/repo/MyApp.git (push)
github  git@github.com-MyApp:MyApp/MyApp.git (fetch)
github  git@github.com-MyApp:MyApp/MyApp.git (push)

Git config

$ more config 
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
[remote "github"]
        url = git@github.com-MyApp:MyApp/MyApp.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/github/*
[user]
        name = MyApp
        email = florent@myapp.com
[branch "master"]
[remote "droplet"]
        url = admin@droplet-myapp:/home/admin/repo/MyApp.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/droplet/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = droplet
    merge = refs/heads/master

Git push (which fail to update codebase)

$ git add . && git commit -m 'fix' && git push github
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'droplet/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

>Solution :

Problem lies in this line

git add . && git commit -m 'fix' && git push github

You are trying to stage files. Than if this succeeded – commit files. And than if commit succeeded – push them to github.

Since you already committed you changes previously git commit fails, and push is not executed.

Use only git push github instead.