Re: Managing websites with git

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 09:07:22AM -0800, David Bryson wrote:

> One really should not push to a non-bare repo.  IIRC there was a patch
> recently to disallow it, but I do not remember if it was merged into
> HEAD.

It's in master and should be in 1.6.1, but it is a config option that
defaults to "warn" for now, so as not to break existing setups. It may
switch to "refuse" after a deprecation period, but I don't think the
length of that period has been set.

> Since I knew the patch was coming I rewrote my scripts to use a bare
> repo in /var/git, and push the changes to /var/www whenever I push to
> the remote repo.

Personally, I think that is a sane way to go; but note that you still
use a non-bare repo with a checkout hook by explicitly setting
receive.denyCurrentBranch to false.

> #!/bin/bash
> LIVE="/var/www/statichacks/blosxom"
> 
> ref=$1
> 
> cd $GIT_DIR
> echo "Pushing updates to $LIVE..."
> git archive --format=tar $ref | tar -C $LIVE --atime-preserve -xpf -
> 
> There may be an easier way to do it, but that script took me about 5
> minutes to write and test.

One disadvantage of this method is that it doesn't remove files from
$LIVE that were deleted in the repository.

-Peff