GIT to deploy website

git_to_deploy

Hey, folks. Below, the steps that I followed (after a little search on the web) to deploy my application 
(website) using GIT, on the cleanest and easiest way. The advantage of this method is that any small 
change pushed to remote repo will be published in your live website.


Step 1: Create the local GIT repository

$ cd /var/www/project/
$ git init
$ git add *
$ git commit -am "first commit"


Step 2: Prepare the server (if you already have the SSH key)

$ ssh user@domain.com 
$ mkdir -p ~/project.git && cd $_
$ git init --bare


Step 3: Create a post-receive hook on server and create an empty folder for the project

First, we'll create a empty folder to our project
$ mkdir /var/www/domain.com/project

After that, we'll create the hook:
$ cat > hooks/post-receive << EOF

#!/bin/sh
echo 'This line will help you to see that this hook is working'
GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/domain.com/project git checkout -f
EOF

And finally, give it permission to write:
$ chmod -x hooks/post-receive

Step 4: In your local project directory, add your remote repo

$ git remote add server user@domain.com:/home/project.git ("server" will be the name of remote)
$ git push server +master:refs/heads/master


Step 5: Test and be happy!

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After the first commit, the normal flow would be:

[change local file]
git commit -am "Always comment your commits, pls"
git push server

And that's it, folks.