Deployment Hook example locally

readme.md

Idea from http://krisjordan.com/essays/setting-up-push-to-deploy-with-git

These are the steps for this setup:

cd
mkdir push-to-deploy
cd push-to-deploy
mkdir {development,remote}
cd remote
git init --bare
cd ..
cd development
git init
echo "Hello, world." >> file.txt
git add file.txt
git commit -m 'First commit.'
git remote add production ../remote
git push production master:master
git push production master:production

Create 'live' repo by cloning it from 'remote'

cd ..
git clone -b production ./remote/ live

Next create the following script and copy it in as bare-repo's hooks/post-receive see below file to copy-paste the content

cd ./remote/hooks
touch post-receive
chmod +x post-receive
nano post-receive

Open new terminal aside and let it watch live repo files to see if they change

watch 'ls -al ~/push-to-deploy/live'

Create a commit with new file to production branch where you actively develop

cd ../../development
touch newfile.txt
git add newfile.txt
git commit -m 'Added new stuff'
git push production master:production

You should see two things. First, you should see "remote: Changes pushed to live". Second, in new terminal with watch you should see that 'live'-folder was updated.

post-receive

#!/bin/bash

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

  if [ "master" == "$branch" ]; then
    echo 'Changes pushed master.'
  fi

  if [ "production" == "$branch" ]; then
    pushd ~/push-to-deploy/live
    unset GIT_DIR
    git pull
    popd
    echo 'Changes pushed to live'
  fi
done