This is a simple post-receive-hook Groovy script for gitblit.

jekyll.groovy

import com.gitblit.GitBlit
import com.gitblit.Keys
import com.gitblit.models.RepositoryModel
import com.gitblit.models.TeamModel
import com.gitblit.models.UserModel
import com.gitblit.utils.JGitUtils
import com.gitblit.utils.StringUtils
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Config
import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevCommit
import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceiveCommand
import org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceiveCommand.Result
import org.eclipse.jgit.util.FileUtils
import org.slf4j.Logger

/**
 * Gitblit post-receive-hook to start jekyll on a repository.
 *
 * Written by Carsten Ringe "[email protected]".
 * 
 * Bound Variables:
 *  gitblit			Gitblit Server	 			com.gitblit.GitBlit
 *  repository		Gitblit Repository			com.gitblit.models.RepositoryModel
 *  receivePack		JGit Receive Pack			org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceivePack
 *  user			Gitblit User				com.gitblit.models.UserModel
 *  commands		JGit commands 				Collection<org.eclipse.jgit.transport.ReceiveCommand>
 *	url				Base url for Gitblit		String
 *  logger			Logs messages to Gitblit 	org.slf4j.Logger
 *  clientLogger	Logs messages to Git client	com.gitblit.utils.ClientLogger
 *
 * Accessing Gitblit Custom Fields:
 *   def myCustomField = repository.customFields.myCustomField
 */

logger.info("jekyll hook triggered by ${user.username} for ${repository.name}")
def rootFolder = '/tmp'
def bare = false
def cloneAllBranches = false
def cloneBranch = 'refs/heads/master'
def includeSubmodules = true

def repoName = repository.name
def sanitizedRepoName = StringUtils.stripDotGit(repoName)
def destinationFolder = new File(rootFolder, sanitizedRepoName)
def wwwFolder = '/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/' + sanitizedRepoName
def srcUrl = 'file://' + new File(GitBlit.getRepositoriesFolder(), repoName).absolutePath

// delete any previous clone
if (destinationFolder.exists()) {
	FileUtils.delete(destinationFolder, FileUtils.RECURSIVE)
}

// clone the repository
logger.info("cloning ${srcUrl} to ${destinationFolder}")
CloneCommand cmd = Git.cloneRepository();
cmd.setBare(bare)
if (cloneAllBranches)
	cmd.setCloneAllBranches(true)
else
	cmd.setBranch(cloneBranch)
cmd.setCloneSubmodules(includeSubmodules)
cmd.setURI(srcUrl)
cmd.setDirectory(destinationFolder)
Git git = cmd.call();
git.repository.close()

// report clone operation success back to pushing Git client
logger.info("${repoName} cloned to ${destinationFolder}")

"mkdir ${wwwFolder}".execute()
def build = "/usr/local/bin/jekyll build -s ${destinationFolder} -d ${wwwFolder}".execute().text
logger.info(build)

logger.info("${repoName} build with jekyll to ${wwwFolder}")