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

After many false starts and dead ends, I'm finally able to deploy website code with just "git push remote" thanks to this article.

The author's post-update script is only one line long and his solution doesn't require .htaccess configuration to hide the Git repo as some others do.

A couple of stumbling blocks if you're deploying this on an Amazon EC2 instance;

1) If you use sudo to create the bare destination repository, you have to change the owner of the repo to ec2-user or the push will fail. (Try "chown ec2-user:ec2-user repo.")

2) The push will fail if you don't pre-configure the location of your amazon-private-key.pem, either in /etc/ssh/ssh_config as an IdentityFile parameter or in ~/.ssh/config using the "[Host] - HostName - IdentityFile - User" layout described here...

...HOWEVER if Host is configured in ~/.ssh/config and different than HostName the Git push will fail. (That's probably a Git bug)