Git post-receive hook to deploy latest release to a given directory

post-receive

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys, os, subprocess
from datetime import datetime

oldrev, newrev, branch = sys.stdin.read().split()
refs, head, branch = branch.split('/')

deploy_to = None

# change deploy_to to path to directory where to deploy to
if branch == 'master':
  deploy_to = '/var/www/myproject'
elif branch == 'dev':
  deploy_to = '/var/www/myproject-dev'

if deploy_to is not None:
  with open('%s/deployment.log' % (deploy_to), 'a') as f:
    f.write('[%s] updated %s from %s to %s\n'
            % (datetime.now().isoformat(),
              branch, oldrev, newrev))
  subprocess.call(
     'GIT_WORK_TREE=%s git checkout -f %s'
     % (deploy_to, branch), shell=True)