Pre-push and post-push hooks involving remote checkout

Question

I have a remote repository for a website which I am developing on my local machine.

I use git flow for neat branching model, so my branches are:

Answer 1

You should push to master on a bare repo.

Then a post-receive hook can checkout that bare rpeo on your live server.

cd /path/to/bare/repo.git
GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/live/server git checkout -f