Simple shell script for bundling a repo using git archive.

bundle.sh

#!/bin/bash

GIT_BRANCH='<the_branch>'
SERVER_IP='<remote_server_ip>'
SERVER_USER='<remote_user>'
DEFAULT_COPY_PATH='<remote_path_where_to_copy_the_bundle>'
INSTALL_SCRIPT="install.sh"

# you can specify a custom git branch if you want
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then	
	GIT_BRANCH=$1
fi

CURRENT_TS=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
RELEASE_NAME=$GIT_BRANCH"_"$CURRENT_TS
BUNDLE_NAME=$RELEASE_NAME.tar.gz

git archive --format=tar $GIT_BRANCH | gzip > $BUNDLE_NAME

if [ ! -f $BUNDLE_NAME ]; then
	echo "Failed to create bundle"
	exit 1
fi

scp $INSTALL_SCRIPT $BUNDLE_NAME $SERVER_USER@$SERVER_IP:$DEFAULT_COPY_PATH

echo "Done. Cleaning up..."

rm -rf $BUNDLE_NAME