A bash script for your server which creates git repos that you can deploy code to

make-git-deploy

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# creates a git repo on a remote server to which to deploy to!
#
# Check for git first
type git >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "I require git but it's not installed.  Aborting."; exit 1; }

a='N'
while [[ $a == 'N' || $a == 'n' ]]
do
	# Collect repo name
	if [[ -z "$1" ]]
	then
		echo -n "Name this repo: "

		read REPO
	else
		REPO=$1
	fi

	echo -n "$REPO is that correct? [Y/n]"
	read a
done

GIT_DIR=$HOME/git/${REPO}.git

# Test for existing repo
while [ -d $GIT_DIR ]; do
	echo $GIT_DIR already exists!
	echo -n "Use a different name: "

	read REPO
	GIT_DIR=$HOME/git/${REPO}.git
done

# Collect Target
if [[ -z "$2" ]]
then
	echo "The ABSOLUTE PATH to the repository target: "

	read -e TARGET
else
	TARGET=$2
fi

# confirm with the user what we're about to do
cat <<EOT
==================================================
Great! we are going to initialize a git repo here:
$GIT_DIR

It will point to:
$TARGET

Make it so? [Y/n]
EOT

read a
if [[ $a == 'N' || $a == 'n' ]]
then
	exit 42
fi

# Start doing the thing!

# If there is no git dir make it
if [ ! -d $HOME/git/ ];
then
	mkdir $HOME/git/
fi

git init --bare $GIT_DIR

echo "#!/bin/sh" > $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
echo "TARGET="$TARGET >> $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
echo "GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR >> $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
echo 'git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f' >> $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
echo 'echo "latest files moved to $TARGET"' >> $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive

chmod +x $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive

echo "---------"
echo "post-receive created, check it out: "
ls -la $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive
echo "---------"
echo "here are the content of the file:"
cat $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive

echo "---------"
echo "now we are creating the folder at $TARGET"

mkdir $TARGET

echo "that's everything, your repo is here: git/${REPO}.git"
echo "add the following to your local git repo:"
echo "git remote add dev ssh@host:git/${REPO}.git"