> What you described is in fact just a case of "post receive" deployment > of a certain branch. Hence you just google for something like > git+deployment or git+web+deployment and study the proposed solutions. > > Usually the deployment is done by a post-receive hook created in the > target repository. > There are usually two approaches to this: > 1) The remote repository is a non-bare (normal) repo consisting > of the work tree and the ".git" directory in it. > You check out the branch you want to "expose" in that repository, > configure the repository to allow pushes to that branch > by setting the receive.denyCurrentBranch conf. variable to "false" > and then arrange your hook to force-update the work tree, say, > by running `git reset --hard HEAD` in it. > Then after each push to the branch which is checked out, the work > tree will be updated. Obviously, you should never do any development > in that work tree. > 2) The remote repository is a bare repo, and your hook arranges for > updating some specific directory after the branch being monitored > is updated. This is trickier than the first case but might be > thought of as being more clean design. > There are also several ways to update the location to be exposed. > > I suggest you to study what you'll google on this topic and make your > pick as there's no one true solution.
The remote repository is already bare, so option 2) is likely the direction that I'll need to go. I seem to have found some good documentation referencing how to do this. Your response was very helpful and the search terms you suggested quickly yielded helpful answers. Thank you. -Bart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
