Git Deploy

Simple script for deploying a project from git's post-receive hook.

This post-receive hook allows developers to define a list of targets on the server and then to be able to deploy to a specific target by adding a [deploy-target] tag to the commit message that they want to deploy.

Requirements

Currently git-deploy requires that you have your deploy targets on the same file system that you are pushing your git commits to.

Installation

These instructions assume that your targets are located at /var/www/beta-target and /var/www/live-target and your git is located in your home at ~/gitrepo. It also assumes that you have created the /var/www/live-target and /var/www/beta-target by simply cloning your ~/gitrepo directly.

Clone this project onto your server with

cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/ryakad/git-deploy
cd git-deploy

Copy the deploy script into your hooks folder.

If you already have a post-receive hook in place you will want to either call this script from your existing hook or vise versa.

cp post-receive ~/gitrepo/hooks/post-receive
cd ~/gitrepo/hooks
chmod a+x post-receive

Now you need to add your targets to the file in the hooks dir.

targets = {
    "live": "/var/www/live-target",
    "beta": "/var/www/beta-target"
}

Usage

With everything in place running a deploy is as simple as adding [deploy-target] anywhere in a commit message and pushing it to the server.

With the above configuration you would use [deploy-live] and [deploy-beta] to update the respective target.