Initialize a bare repository outside of the live server (hub repo).
mkdir -p /var/git/myProject.git
cd /var/git/myProject.git
git init --bare
Initialize a repository inside of the live server (prime repo). And add hub as a remote.
cd /var/www/html/myProject
git init
git remote add hub /var/git/myProject.git
git add .
git commit -m "Initial import of pre-existing web files."
git push hub master
Open vim /var/git/myProject.git/hooks/post-update and paste this.
#!/bin/sh
echo
echo "*** Pulling changes into Live [Hub's post-update hook]"
echo
cd /var/www/html/myProject || exit
unset GIT_DIR
git pull hub master
branch=$(git rev-parse --symbolic --abbrev-ref $1)
if [ "$branch" = "master" ]
then
# run other commands here like `yarn build`
fi
exec git-update-server-info
Open vim /var/www/html/myProject/.git/hooks/post-commit and paste this.
#!/bin/sh
echo
echo "*** Pushing changes to Hub [Live's post-commit hook]"
echo
git push hub
Make hooks executable.
chmod +x /var/git/myProject.git/hooks/post-update
chmod +x /var/www/html/myProject/.git/hooks/post-commit
Clone repo to the local computer.
cd ~/Desktop
git clone username@ipAddress:/var/git/myProject.git
cd myProject
Ready to development.
echo "test" >> index.html
git add .
git commit -m "First local change."
git push origin master