Create a mirror Git repository from an existing Git project directory for the purpose of release management using a post-receive hook

convert-deployment-to-release-mirror.sh

# go to the directory where the site is deployed
cd ~/project/dir

# initialize empty Git repo for release purposes
git init --bare ~/repos/git/releases/project.git

# add the repo as a remote called "releases"
git remote add releases ~/repos/git/releases/project.git

# create the "beta" branch locally and switch to it
git checkout -b beta

# push the release branch to the releases remote
git push -u releases beta

Line 13 should probably read: # push the beta branch to the releases remote