Git post-receive hook to build and deploy pelican blog

gistfile1.sh

# The git user will run this script as a post-receive hook on the blog repository.
# It will build the latest version of the blog, and then copy it to the webserver directory
# This script is contained in the hooks/post-receive hook file of a git bare repository
# created with ``git init --bare``*
# We assume that pelican is installed globally, along with its dependencies.

BLOG_DIR=/var/www/blog
TMP_BLOG_CLONE=$HOME/blog-tmp
BLOG_GIT=/home/git/blog.git

# Pull the latest version of the code on a temporary, separate repo
git clone $BLOG_GIT $TMP_BLOG_CLONE
cd $TMP_BLOG_CLONE

# build the blog
make html

# copy it to the directory served by your webserver
# Note: the directory is both owned by www-data (user) and git (group)
# drwxrwxr-x  7 www-data git      4.0K Dec  8 21:43 blog
cp -r output/* $BLOG_DIR

# cleanup
cd ..
rm -rf $TMP_BLOG_CLONE
rm -rf $BLOG_DIR/.git