Git Deployment

GitDeploy

//First, create a directory on your server and initialize an empty git repository. I like to serve my websites from ~/www/, so that's what I'll do in this example.

mkdir ~/www/example.com && cd ~/www/example.com
git init

//Next, let's set up your server's git repo to nicely handle deployment via git push.

git config core.worktree ~/www/example.com
git config receive.denycurrentbranch ignore

//Finally, we'll set up a post-receive hook for git to check out the master branch so your web server can serve files from that branch. (Remember, ^D is Control+D, or whatever your shell's EOT character is.

cat > .git/hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
git checkout -f
^D
chmod +x .git/hooks/post-receive

//Back on your local machine, let's get your git repo ready for deployment.

cd ~/www-dev/example.com
git remote add origin \
ssh://[email protected]/home/user/www/example.com

//Now, whenever you want to deploy changes you've made locally, simply run the following command!

git push

// Credit: http://coderwall.com/p/xczkaq