Post-receive hook to deploy the code being pushed to production branch to a specific folder

post-receive

#!/bin/bash

target_branch="production"
working_tree="PATH_TO_DEPLOY"

while read oldrev newrev refname
do
    branch=$(git rev-parse --symbolic --abbrev-ref $refname)
    if [ -n "$branch" ] && [ "$target_branch" == "$branch" ]; then
    
       GIT_WORK_TREE=$working_tree git checkout $target_branch -f
       NOW=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M")
       # Add section to do npm install or composer install or pip install -r requirements
       # check env passed to gogs container or sed this file in init script on gogs with the app_type
       # or do the logic there and just set the command to be used here in a variable
       # also check if the package.json or requirements.txt and/or Gemfile / composer.json/lock ?
       # if it exists then install deps to the git work tree, check if it's needed to delete the deps folder each time
       # use a scripting language like http://krisjordan.com/essays/setting-up-push-to-deploy-with-git
       # don't forget to restart (start | stop) app uwsgi , php ? , npm maybe pm2 bundler etc
       # remove this tagging #git tag release_$NOW $target_branch
       
       
       # Add info to the pretty print below to show app is stopped / started / deps are updated etc etc :-)
        # Even maybe app access info ; url, ports etc
       echo "   /==============================="
       echo "   | DEPLOYMENT COMPLETED"
       echo "   | Target branch: $target_branch"
       echo "   | Target folder: $working_tree"
       echo "   | Tag name     : release_$NOW"
       echo "   \=============================="
    fi
done