README.md

Use Git to update your web server.

Many hosting service now supports not only FTP and web uploading but also SSH. It's more convenient to use the Git flow:

• Modify and test your site locally.
• Push to remote Git repo, which triggers the update of your website.

My settings:

• Suppose the HTTP server use ${HOME}/html as the root dir of your website.
• git init the ${HOME}/html as a Git repo with working dir.
• git init --bare the ${HOME}/html.git as a bare repo for push/pull.
• Edit ${HOME}/html.git/hooks/post-update as follows.

git-settings.md

Handle the nasty environments

If you have control of the server and installs Git via package manager, the above settings should be enough. In my case ( http://hupili.net/ ), the server is really nasty. You can not find evn the which command, let alone Git! After compiling Git, there are some further settings needed.

I put the Git paths in a .git-path file (you may also want to source it in .bashrc)

export GIT_BIN=${HOME}/git
export PATH=${GIT_BIN}/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GIT_BIN}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_BIN}/libexec/git-core

and modify the .ssh/authorized_keys:

command="if [[ \"x${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND}x\" == \"xx\" ]]; then /bin/bash; else source ~/.git-path; eval \"${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND}\"; fi;" ssh-rsa XXXXX_YOUR_PUB_KEY_HERE YOUR_USER@YOUR_MACHINE_HERE

post-update

#!/bin/sh
#
# An example hook script to prepare a packed repository for use over
# dumb transports.
#
# To enable this hook, rename this file to "post-update".

#exec git update-server-info

target=${HOME}/html
cd $target
unset GIT_DIR
git pull