Git Deploy Management

how-to

First, make sure you already have git installed on local and remote server.

On remote server
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$ cd ~/ #if you are not here yet
$ mkdir website.git && cd website.git
$ git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ubuntu/website.git/
$ vi hooks/post-receive # paste the post-receive file here
$ chmod +x hooks/post-receive

Make sure you already created the folder with right permissions where your website will go, in this case our website is going on /var/www/site

On workstation
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Now on your computer, go to your project folder then add our recently created remote server:

$ git remote add deploy ssh://user@ip/home/user/website.git
$ #on first push:
$ git push deploy +master:refs/heads/master

Now you are ready to go, everytime to deploy the files just use:

$ git push deploy

Common errors
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On push deploy, if you get something like this: fatal: 'user@ip/home/ubuntu/website.git' does not appear to be a git repository. Make sure you add ssh:// on remote address, like this ssh://user@ip/home/ubuntu/website.git

post-receive

#!/bin/bash

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
  branch=`echo $ref | cut -d/ -f3`

  if [ "master" == "$branch" ]; then
    git --work-tree=/var/www/site/ checkout -f $branch
    echo 'Changes pushed live.'
  fi

done

post-receive-multi

#!/bin/bash

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
  branch=`echo $ref | cut -d/ -f3`

  if [ "master" == "$branch" ]; then
    git --work-tree=/var/www/site/ checkout -f $branch
    echo 'Changes pushed live.'
  fi

  if [ "labs" == "$branch" ]; then
    git --work-tree=/var/www/site-labs/ checkout -f $branch
    echo 'Changes pushed to labs'
  fi

  if [ "dev" == "$branch" ]; then
    git --work-tree=/var/www/site-dev/ checkout -f $branch
    echo 'Changes pushed to dev'
  fi

done