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

post-receive

#!/bin/bash

target_branch="master"
working_tree="/var/www/html/stage.reddoorlivinglb.com/"

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")
       git tag release_$NOW $target_branch

       echo "   /==============================="
       echo "   | DEPLOYMENT COMPLETED"
       echo "   | Target branch: $target_branch"
       echo "   | Target folder: $working_tree"
       echo "   | Tag name     : release_$NOW"
       echo "   \=============================="

       cat << EOF > $working_tree'git_release.log'
/===============================
| DEPLOYMENT COMPLETED
| Date: $NOW
| Branch: $branch
| Target folder: $working_tree
\==============================
EOF

    fi
done