Question

I’d like to do the following:

• Create a local git repo, let’s call it ~/my-awesome-app
• create a folder on my site, let’s call it mysite.com/my-awesome-app
• Be able to just push any changes I make on ~/my-awesome-app to mysite.com/my-awesome-app

Can someone explain how I would set that up?

Answer 1

You can make mysite.com/my-awesome-app a git repository and set receive.denyCurrentBranch in it to ignore to allow pushing there but this is risky.

If I wanted to do this, I’d make a bare repository on my server which I could push my code into and then change the update hook to export the latest tree into mysite.com/my-awesome-app (and optionally restart the app). That way, the repository and the deployed copy are two different things.