Question

I have a remote development server and every time when I do a code change on my local machine I need to make sure the code I’ve changed works properly on the dev (remote server).Below is the setup I have so far:

1. On the remote server I have:

   A git repository created on a folder called dev with a bunch of files (I used git init and than git add . – to add all those files to the repository).

   Then from that repository I created a branch called master-copy.

2. On my local machine I created a clone from the remote server’s master-copy branch. Now every time when I make changes on my clonen copy I do a push to the master-copy branch on the remote server.

Is there a way to update the files located on dev folder (on the remote server) when I do I push from my local machine cloned copy to the master-copy branch (on the remote server)?

Answer 1

You should look at git-receive-pack for information on installing hooks which are triggered when you push to a repository.

See Git Book for some examples of scripts which can checkout for you after pushing.