Git post-receive hook to checkout a specific branch
If you deploy using a git post-receive hook, this script will allow you to push and checkout a specific branch on your remote rather than only being able to use master.
Create myrepo.git/hooks/post-receive:
#!/bin/bash
while read oldrev newrev ref
do
branch=`echo $ref | cut -d/ -f3`
GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/local/checkout git checkout -f $branch
done-
chmod +x myrepo.git/hooks/post-receive`
From your local checkout:
git push myremote mybranchWritten by Mike Robinson
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Is there a way to check out 2 branches master and develop, to there own directories?
e.g.
master to /sites/live/site/
develop to /sites/dev/site/
@myserioushunt sorry I just saw this comment. Not sure how long you've been waiting for an answer. I would approach it from a standpoint of having two separate git remotes on the same server. So you could have myrepo-production.git and myrepo-develop.git. Alter the paths in the post receive hook for each remote accordingly. Then you would be able to git push production mybranch and git push develop mybranch.
Branch name may contain slashes, so it should be:
branch=`echo $ref | cut -d/ -f3-`
This hook is a thing of beauty.
Really well done. Thanks!
