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    Deploying Git Project Repositories to an Ubuntu server


If you haven't already, install git on the server by running: sudo apt-get install git
If you haven't already, create a repo directory inside of /var by running sudo mkdir repo
On the live server, go into /var/repo and create a new directory inside eg newsite.git
The new directory path should look like /var/repo/newsite.git
Ensure a new directory has been created in the www directory. Eg /var/www/newsite
cd into /var/repo/newsite.git and run: sudo git init --bare
--bare means that our folder will have no source files, just the version control.

A number of new folders will be created, cd into the hooks directory

Create a new 'post-receive' file
With the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
git --work-tree=/var/www/newsite --git-dir=/var/repo/newsite.git checkout -f


Set the post-receive file permissions by running: sudo chmod +x post-receive
Set the var/repo/newsite.git directory permissions by running: sudo chown -R username:group newsite.git
Set the var/www/newsite directory permissions by running: sudo chown -R username:group newsite
Go into the repository in the local directory and run: git init if you haven't already
Add the remote repository by running: git remote add remote-name ssh://user@mydomain.com/var/repo/site.git

Push the files to the server by running the normal three commands.
git add . git commit -m "Initial Commit" git push remote-name master
This following section is only required if your server only allows private key access. This guide assumes that you've added the public key to the server for the user you've specified in the 'ssh://user@domain.com/var/repo/newsite.git' address.
This StackOverflow post is where this process came from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2127104/permission-denied-publickey-error-using-git-on-windows-7
If you try to run git push live master on a Windows machine and get an error such as "Permission Denied (Public Key)," follow this process to fix it.
The "Permission Denied (Public Key)" error is most likely caused by git trying to provide the default id_rsa file as the private key file. If the server isn't set up to accept the key provided in the id_rsa file, it'll reject the connection straight away. By default, only the id_rsa key will be provided and multiple keys cannot be provided unless you use plink and pageant.
First, download and save the plink and pageant executables, preferably saving them in a directory that's easy to access.
Open pageant, and add the private key for the server you're trying to push to.
In the local command line application, set the GIT_SSH environment variable by running: set GIT_SSH=C:\Users\username.ssh\plink.exe (Adjusting this address to match the location of your plink.exe file)
Double check to make sure pageant is running.
Then run git push live master again, the server should now accept the key file.
For more info: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps