I wanted something simple for staging and deploying my static site.

1. Generate build locally
2. Push the build to a bare git repo on your server
3. A post-receive hook checks out the files in the public directory

Repeat for staging server, if you want.

# ssh into your server
$ ssh you@example.org

# create a directory for your site
$ mkdir ~/example.com

# create a directory for git
$ mkdir ~/example.git 

# create a bare git repo
$ cd example.git
$ git init --bare

# setup a post-receive hook
$ cat > hooks/post-receive
#!/bin/sh
GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/example.com git checkout -f
$ chmod +x hooks/post-receive

I'm using Make:

make prod
make staging