Deploy a project using Git push

Question

Is it possible to deploy a website using git push? I have a hunch it has something to do with using git hooks to perform a git reset --hard on the

Answer 1

Using the post-update file below:

1. Copy over your .git directory to your web server

2. On your local copy, modify your .git/config file and add your web server as a remote:

   [remote "production"]
       url = username@webserver:/path/to/htdocs/.git
   

3. On the server, replace .git/hooks/post-update with file below

4. Add execute access to the file (again, on the server):

   chmod +x .git/hooks/post-update
   

5. Now, just locally push to your web server and it should automatically update the working copy:

   git push production
   

#!/bin/sh
#
# This hook does two things:
#
#  1. update the "info" files that allow the list of references to be
#     queries over dumb transports such as http
#
#  2. if this repository looks like it is a non-bare repository, and
#     the checked-out branch is pushed to, then update the working copy.
#     This makes "push" function somewhat similarly to darcs and bzr.
#
# To enable this hook, make this file executable by "chmod +x post-update". 
git-update-server-info 
is_bare=$(git-config --get --bool core.bare) 
if [ -z "$is_bare" ]
then
      # for compatibility's sake, guess
      git_dir_full=$(cd $GIT_DIR; pwd)
      case $git_dir_full in */.git) is_bare=false;; *) is_bare=true;; esac
fi 
update_wc() {
      ref=$1
      echo "Push to checked out branch $ref" >&2
      if [ ! -f $GIT_DIR/logs/HEAD ]
      then
             echo "E:push to non-bare repository requires a HEAD reflog" >&2
             exit 1
      fi
      if (cd $GIT_WORK_TREE; git-diff-files -q --exit-code >/dev/null)
      then
             wc_dirty=0
      else
             echo "W:unstaged changes found in working copy" >&2
             wc_dirty=1
             desc="working copy"
      fi
      if git diff-index --cached HEAD@{1} >/dev/null
      then
             index_dirty=0
      else
             echo "W:uncommitted, staged changes found" >&2
             index_dirty=1
             if [ -n "$desc" ]
             then
                   desc="$desc and index"
             else
                   desc="index"
             fi
      fi
      if [ "$wc_dirty" -ne 0 -o "$index_dirty" -ne 0 ]
      then
             new=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
             echo "W:stashing dirty $desc - see git-stash(1)" >&2
             ( trap 'echo trapped $$; git symbolic-ref HEAD "'"$ref"'"' 2 3 13 15 ERR EXIT
             git-update-ref --no-deref HEAD HEAD@{1}
             cd $GIT_WORK_TREE
             git stash save "dirty $desc before update to $new";
             git-symbolic-ref HEAD "$ref"
             )
      fi 
      # eye candy - show the WC updates :)
      echo "Updating working copy" >&2
      (cd $GIT_WORK_TREE
      git-diff-index -R --name-status HEAD >&2
      git-reset --hard HEAD)
} 
if [ "$is_bare" = "false" ]
then
      active_branch=`git-symbolic-ref HEAD`
      export GIT_DIR=$(cd $GIT_DIR; pwd)
      GIT_WORK_TREE=${GIT_WORK_TREE-..}
      for ref
      do
             if [ "$ref" = "$active_branch" ]
             then
                   update_wc $ref
             fi
      done
fi