Question

I am trying to setup git for automatic deployment. Here is what I am doing..

1. I have created one empty bare repository on my repos server which hosted on xyz.com.
2. Then in eclipse using EGit I have clone newly created bare repository.
3. On my local machine I have one php project.
4. Now I want to create 3 branches development, staging, production and want to add my project to development branch.

Maybe I am doing something wrong or missed something to setup. Can anyone please guide me for git setup?

All help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

To create the 3 branches, you can do the following (using whatever names you prefer) from the git command line:

git checkout -b prod
git checkout -b stage
git checkout -b dev

To add your project to the dev branch, copy your project files into the git working directory on your filesystem – this will be the directory that contains the ‘.git’ directory (i.e. not the ‘.git’ directory itself).

Then from the command line run:

git status

which should give you a list of the files that you copied – they will be under the heading ‘Untracked files:’.

Now run the following commands to add them to the dev branch (replacing “MyCommitMessage” with an appropriate commit message):

git add .
git commit -m "MyCommitMessage"

At this point you can use

git push --all

to synchronise the remote bare repository with what you have locally.