git push origin master not pushing the files

I have setup my remote git and local git on my mac I was able to create a git repo (git init myrepo) on the remote machine (Linux) Added few files and committed them no problems (git add , git commit -m "test")

From my local I was able to clone the repo from the remote with no issues (git clone ssh://user@IP/Path)

So far so good no issues.

I have created few files locally and used git add and commit then tried to push them to the remote server using git push origin master

initially I received an error message and searching around the solution was to run this command directly on the remote server: git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore

That fixed the issues and now I am able to push successfully:

$ git push origin master

git add test.sh 
git add git*
git commit -m "Adding 2 new files and updating test.sh"
[master 4dd11a0] Adding 2 new files and updating test.sh
3 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 gitHowToUrls.txt
create mode 100644 git_howto.txt
git push origin master
Counting objects: 7, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1.91 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://root@IP/path/myrepo
ad4a8b2..4dd11a0  master -> master

$ git push -u origin master

Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Everything up-to-date

$ git push origin HEAD:master

Everything up-to-date

I even checked to make sure that the files match

$ git ls-remote origin

52543130bff4f9f37a23b01b0c44c7549ab82dd9        HEAD
52543130bff4f9f37a23b01b0c44c7549ab82dd9        refs/heads/master

$ git ls-remote

From ssh://root@IP/path/myrepo
52543130bff4f9f37a23b01b0c44c7549ab82dd9        HEAD
52543130bff4f9f37a23b01b0c44c7549ab82dd9        refs/heads/master

However when I go to my remote repo (root@IP/path/myrepo) I can't see any of the new files!!! Any idea what I am doing wrong?

I ran git log on the remote server and I see all my notes:

root@IP [myrepo]# git log
 commit 52543130bff4f9f37a23b01b0c44c7549ab82dd9
Author: joe d <myemail@myemail>
Date:   Sat Mar 22 15:56:30 2014 -0700

    adding again, since first time didn't work

 commit 4dd11a0235cdabe528f8755253989ce85df4fa8b
Author: joe d <myemail@myemail>
Date:   Sat Mar 22 15:48:08 2014 -0700

    Adding 2 new files and updating test.sh

 commit ad4a8b224989dc2131b6a33f41b95ce8b2a5c96a
Author: joe d <myemail@myemail>
Date:   Sat Mar 22 11:33:34 2014 -0700

   test

 commit 956ff16e081587fa59a8cec73fc383744c5c3a5e
Author: joe d <myemail@myemail>
Date:   Sat Mar 22 18:32:30 2014 +0000

    test

My remote repo:

root@IP [myrepo]# ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 4 root    root    4096 Mar 22 18:32 .
drwxr-x--- 6 joe nobody  4096 Mar 22 18:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root    root    4096 Mar 22 18:38 .git
drwxr-xr-x 2 joe joe 4096 Mar 21 22:12 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root     992 Mar 22 18:31 index.html

My local repo:

localmachine:myrepo joe$ ls -la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   8 joe  1668562246   272 Mar 22 16:42 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 joe  1668562246   102 Mar 22 11:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x  15 joe  1668562246   510 Mar 22 16:07 .git
-rw-r--r--   1 joe  1668562246   445 Mar 22 16:42 gitHowToUrls.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 joe  1668562246  3291 Mar 22 15:56 git_howto.txt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 joe  1668562246    81 Mar 22 15:43 test.sh
drwxr-xr-x   6 joe  1668562246   204 Mar 22 11:33 images
-rw-r--r--   1 joe  1668562246   992 Mar 22 11:33 index.html

Thanks

NEW NOTE:

OK, so I wasn't using bare branch for sure, I think its the command I ran on the remote system

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore

I have deleted both repos on local and remote and created it again (No bare for sure)

Then attempted a push like so and received this error:

localrepo$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 6, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1.98 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent
remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match
remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.
remote: error: 
remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to
remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into
remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you
    remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some
remote: error: other way.
remote: error: 
remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set
remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'.
To ssh://root@IP/path/myrepo
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://root@IP/path/myrepo'

This time round I entered refuse instead of ignore

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch refuse

Running git push generated a new error message:

localRepo$ git push origin master

Counting objects: 6, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1.98 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
To ssh://root@IP/path/myrepo
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://root@IP/path/myrepo'

How do I uncheck the branch so I could successfully push from local to remote repo?