Setting up GIT push to live website on a windows server

gitpush.txt

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How to setup git based push to live webserver on windows with apache
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1) Install http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

2) Setup your git directories
	# Setup a base git directory
	mkdir c:/server/git
	git init --bare www.git
	cd www.git
	git config --file config http.receivepack true

3) Setup your "down" directory
	mkdir c:/server/www.down

4) Open c:/server/www.git/hooks and create a post-receive file with the following:

#!/bin/sh.exe
export GIT_WORK_TREE="c:\\server\\www.git"
export GIT_DIR=`pwd`
export WWW_DOWN_DIR="c:\\server\\www.down"
export WWW_DIR="c:\\server\\www"

# Rename the www directory to www.down
rmdir $WWW_DIR
cmd.exe //c "mklink /j $WWW_DIR $WWW_DOWN_DIR"

git checkout -f

# Rename the www directory to www.git
rmdir $WWW_DIR
cmd.exe //c "mklink /j $WWW_DIR $GIT_WORK_TREE"


5) Setting up git-http-backend in apache

Open up your httpd.conf and add the following to the end of it
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#http://serverfault.com/questions/122296/what-are-the-steps-to-setup-git-http-backend-w-apache-on-windows/163048#163048
SetEnv GIT_PROJECT_ROOT c:/server/git/
SetEnv GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL

ScriptAlias /git/ "C:/Progra~2/Git/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend.exe/"

<Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/">
  Options +ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
  Allow From All
</Directory>

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NOTE! this provides no authentication, so anyone can push to your server


6) On your local machine:
(assuming you already have a repository you want to push)

run 
	git remote add web http://your-server/git/www.git
	git push web +master:refs/heads/master


7) and your live server should update :)

8) INFO:
http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto
http://serverfault.com/questions/122296/what-are-the-steps-to-setup-git-http-backend-w-apache-on-windows/163048#163048