Deploy website using git checkout

git-deploy-checkout.md

Deploy website using git checkout

Remote Shell

Create a base directory

I'm stacking all files in a single directory for all development phases

cd /home/user/website.com/

Create deployment directories

Considering my developement and testing server is my laptop, creating stag and prodfolders for Staging and Production phases respectively.

mkdir -p stag/{git,live}
mkdir -p prod/{git,live}
...

git subfolder will be created as a bare repository to push changes from local and live folder will be the folder where website served.

Prepare remote repository

Assuming i'm still at the base directory (home/user/website.com/) at this point.

Initialize repo directory

cd stag/git
git init --bare

Edit/create hooks/post-receive hook file and put the following:

#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=../live git checkout -f

Make the hook executable

chmod +x hooks/post-receive

Local Shell

chdir /to/local/repository

git remote add stag ssh://user@website.com/home/user/website.com/stag/git
git push stag +master:refs/heads/master

At this point, /home/user/website.com/stag/live directory on remote server should contain a copy of repository files freed from git meta files.

After this point, anytime i want to push a change to remote server, all i need to do is;

git push stag

Conclusion

Change stag to, for example prod, and repeat all of the steps above to create an additional deployment folder for development.