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

As complementary answer I would like to offer an alternative. I'm using git-ftp and it works fine.

https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp

Easy to use, only type:

git ftp push

and git will automatically upload project files.

Regards

Answer 2

Given an environment where you have multiple developers accessing the same repository the following guidelines may help.

Ensure that you have a unix group that all devs belong to and give ownership of the .git repository to that group.

1. In the .git/config of the server repository set sharedrepository = true. (This tells git to allow multiple users which is needed for commits and deployment.

2. set the umask of each user in their bashrc files to be the same - 002 is a good start

Answer 3

I ended up creating my own rudimentary deployment tool which would automatically pull down new updates from the repo - https://github.com/jesalg/SlimJim - Basically it listens to the github post-receive-hook and uses a proxy to trigger an update script.

Answer 4

The way I do it is I have a bare Git repository on my deployment server where I push changes. Then I log in to the deployment server, change to the actual web server docs directory, and do a git pull. I don't use any hooks to try to do this automatically, that seems like more trouble than it's worth.

Answer 5

You could conceivably set up a git hook that when say a commit is made to say the "stable" branch it will pull the changes and apply them to the PHP site. The big downside is you won't have much control if something goes wrong and it will add time to your testing - but you can get an idea of how much work will be involved when you merge say your trunk branch into the stable branch to know how many conflicts you may run into. It will be important to keep an eye on any files that are site specific (eg. configuration files) unless you solely intend to only run the one site.

Alternatively have you looked into pushing the change to the site instead?

For information on git hooks see the githooks documentation.

Answer 6

Giddyup are language-agnostic just-add-water git hooks to automate deployment via git push. It also allows you to have custom start/stop hooks for restarting web server, warming up cache etc.

https://github.com/mpalmer/giddyup

Check out examples.