steps to deploy website through git

steps_to_deploy_website_through_git.txt

# steps to deploy website through git

# login via ssh to your website

# create a folder where you want to store your bare repository
mkdir -p /home/username/gitrepos/myrepository.git

cd /home/username/gitrepos/myrepository.git

git init --bare

# modify the hook script
cd hooks

# create post-receive script
nano post-receive

# Inside the post-receive script you have to put everything you want to execute after the push is executed
# For example you may want to copy the repository content into your website published directory
# WARNING be sure to understand what the following script is doing before using it! The paths of the folder are just an example and you should adapt them to your situation. 

# WARNING: this is just an example of how the script post-receive could be and I am not responsible for any loss of data you could encounter. Please be sure to understand the script before using it.

##### START OF example of post-receive #######

#!/bin/sh
# The production dir
REPONAME="myrepository"
TARGET="/home/username/www/${REPONAME}"

# A temp directory for deployment
TMP="/home/username/srv_tmp"

TMP_DEPLOY="${TMP}/${REPONAME}"

# The git repo
REPO="/home/username/srv_git/${REPONAME}.git"

# Deploy the content to the temporary directory
mkdir -p $TMP_DEPLOY
git --work-tree=$TMP_DEPLOY --git-dir=$REPO checkout -f

# Then replace all the files in the target
rm -rf $TARGET
mv $TMP_DEPLOY $TARGET

# Clean the temporary folder
rm -rf $TMP

##### END OF example of post-receive #######

# press ctrl+o and hit enter to save the script, close with ctrl+x
# make the script executable
chmod +x post-receive

#now back on the local machine you have to add a remote to your repository
git remote add deploy ssh://username@yourdomain.com:2222/home/username/gitrepos/myrepository.git

# WARNING: after you push the post-receive script will be executed. Be sure to understand what the script is doing before pushing. 
# Now if you are super confident that your post-receive script is good to go, to deploy you can simply do a push like this:
git push deploy master