Deploy a project using Git push

I found this script on this site and it seems to work quite well.

1. Copy over your .git directory to your web server

2. On your local copy, modify your .git/config file and add your web server as a remote:

   [remote "production"]
       url = username@webserver:/path/to/htdocs/.git
   

3. On the server, replace .git/hooks/post-update with this file (in the answer below)

4. Add execute access to the file (again, on the server):

   chmod +x .git/hooks/post-update
   

5. Now, just locally push to your web server and it should automatically update the working copy:

   git push production
   

Using the post-update file below:

1. Copy over your .git directory to your web server

2. On your local copy, modify your .git/config file and add your web server as a remote:

   [remote "production"]
       url = username@webserver:/path/to/htdocs/.git
   

3. On the server, replace .git/hooks/post-update with file below

4. Add execute access to the file (again, on the server):

   chmod +x .git/hooks/post-update
   

5. Now, just locally push to your web server and it should automatically update the working copy:

   git push production
   

#!/bin/sh
#
# This hook does two things:
#
#  1. update the "info" files that allow the list of references to be
#     queries over dumb transports such as http
#
#  2. if this repository looks like it is a non-bare repository, and
#     the checked-out branch is pushed to, then update the working copy.
#     This makes "push" function somewhat similarly to darcs and bzr.
#
# To enable this hook, make this file executable by "chmod +x post-update". 
git-update-server-info 
is_bare=$(git-config --get --bool core.bare) 
if [ -z "$is_bare" ]
then
      # for compatibility's sake, guess
      git_dir_full=$(cd $GIT_DIR; pwd)
      case $git_dir_full in */.git) is_bare=false;; *) is_bare=true;; esac
fi 
update_wc() {
      ref=$1
      echo "Push to checked out branch $ref" >&2
      if [ ! -f $GIT_DIR/logs/HEAD ]
      then
             echo "E:push to non-bare repository requires a HEAD reflog" >&2
             exit 1
      fi
      if (cd $GIT_WORK_TREE; git-diff-files -q --exit-code >/dev/null)
      then
             wc_dirty=0
      else
             echo "W:unstaged changes found in working copy" >&2
             wc_dirty=1
             desc="working copy"
      fi
      if git diff-index --cached HEAD@{1} >/dev/null
      then
             index_dirty=0
      else
             echo "W:uncommitted, staged changes found" >&2
             index_dirty=1
             if [ -n "$desc" ]
             then
                   desc="$desc and index"
             else
                   desc="index"
             fi
      fi
      if [ "$wc_dirty" -ne 0 -o "$index_dirty" -ne 0 ]
      then
             new=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
             echo "W:stashing dirty $desc - see git-stash(1)" >&2
             ( trap 'echo trapped $$; git symbolic-ref HEAD "'"$ref"'"' 2 3 13 15 ERR EXIT
             git-update-ref --no-deref HEAD HEAD@{1}
             cd $GIT_WORK_TREE
             git stash save "dirty $desc before update to $new";
             git-symbolic-ref HEAD "$ref"
             )
      fi 
      # eye candy - show the WC updates :)
      echo "Updating working copy" >&2
      (cd $GIT_WORK_TREE
      git-diff-index -R --name-status HEAD >&2
      git-reset --hard HEAD)
} 
if [ "$is_bare" = "false" ]
then
      active_branch=`git-symbolic-ref HEAD`
      export GIT_DIR=$(cd $GIT_DIR; pwd)
      GIT_WORK_TREE=${GIT_WORK_TREE-..}
      for ref
      do
             if [ "$ref" = "$active_branch" ]
             then
                   update_wc $ref
             fi
      done
fi