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

I am using the following solution by toroid.org, which has a simpler hook script.

on the server:

$ mkdir website.git && cd website.git
$ git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ams/website.git/

and install the hook on the server:

$ mkdir /var/www/www.example.org
$ cat > hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/www.example.org git checkout -f
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/www git clean -f -d # clean directory from removed files

$ chmod +x hooks/post-receive

on your client:

$ mkdir website && cd website
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ams/website/.git/
$ echo 'Hello, world!' > index.html
$ git add index.html
$ git commit -q -m "The humble beginnings of my web site."

$ git remote add web ssh://server.example.org/home/ams/website.git
$ git push web +master:refs/heads/master

then to publish, just type

$ git push web

There is a full description on the website: http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto