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## Git push deployment in 7 easy steps.md

      
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                7 easy steps to automated git push deployments. With small and configurable bash only post-receive hook
              
          
    How-to setup a simple git push deployment

These are my notes basically. At first i created this gist just as a reminder for myself. But feel free to use this for your project as a starting point. If you have questions you can find me on twitter @thomasf https://twitter.com/thomasf
This is how i used it on a Debian Wheezy testing (https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/)
Discuss, ask questions, etc. here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445545
On the server (example.com)


## .bash_profile
# EDITOR=nano sudo visudo
# Change the following line: (:i to insert + esc to go back + :w to save + :q to quit)
# Defaults     env_reset
# to:
# Defaults     env_reset,timestamp_timeout=960 # in minutes


export PATH=$PATH:.
# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin
	# EDITOR=nano sudo visudo
	# Change the following line: (:i to insert + esc to go back + :w to save + :q to quit)
	# Defaults env_reset
	# to:
	# Defaults env_reset,timestamp_timeout=960 # in minutes


	export PATH=$PATH:.
	# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin