post-receive hook to pull another repo on the server

post-receive

#!/bin/sh

PUBLIC_WWW=/home/public
GIT_DIR=$PUBLIC_WWW/.git

# Pull the latest from the repo to the public dir.
cd $PUBLIC_WWW
echo Pulling.
git reset HEAD --hard
git pull
echo Setting permissions.
chmod 755 *

exit

In this case, I have a local repo hosted on the same server as the web server.

In my project (a simple web project), gulp build produces a folder, dist, that has my server's git repo added as a remote. So I build my web project, producing the output, and then commit that output and push it to master on the server's repo.

This hook then causes the server to go to my public folder, reset (for good measure), and pull to latest.

Of course, if gulp-scp or gulp-scp2 actually worked, I wouldn't have needed to do any of this.

Resources that were helpful (but share none of the blame if I did something stupid):
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