Deploy a project using Git push

Question

Is it possible to deploy a website using git push? I have a hunch it has something to do with using git hooks to perform a git reset --hard on the

Answer 1

In essence all you need to do are the following:

server = $1
branch = $2
git push $server $branch
ssh @$server "cd /path/to/www; git pull"

I have those lines in my application as an executable called deploy.

so when I want to do a deploy I type ./deploy myserver mybranch.