Ghetto git deployment strategy

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

Remote server config

ssh into your server (has your public ssh key)

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

Repeat for staging server, if you want.

Local process

I'm using Make:

Deploy to production

make prod

Deploy to staging

make staging