Using git right (for private repo website code)?

This may be a question about convention, best practices and/or personal preferences: So I'm a git noob, and my website code is not worth sharing, so I'm not using github or the like. Knowing that git doesn't need a central repository I thought: great, my workstation and the server are the two nodes, and I'll just push changes from my workstation to the server. When I started, the code was only on the server, so I: - On server: `git init` - On workstation: `git clone me@myserver:path/to/repo` - Merrily made changes and committed locally - On workstation: `git push me@myserver:path/to/repo` I got strange results. The files I had added locally appeared on the server, but changes to existing files weren't reflected. I then read a warning against pushing to a remote branch that is checked out. So the new setup is: - Ran `git clone --bare` to make a bare repository - Put the bare repository on my server (`~/repos/mysite.git` - not a public folder) - Code local and: `git push me@myserver:repos/mysite.git` - On server: `git pull ~/repos/mysite.git` to get the latest Is this correct? Is it logical? Is it what you would do?