Exporting files from hook in bare git repository

Question

So, my situation is the following: I want to maintain my website using emacs-muse mode. For transferring the website (and version control), I want to use git. So I would create a hook in the remote (bare) repository that automatically copies the HTML subdir to the web directory. How can I do that from a hook? Also note that the whole directory contains a lot of files, so I can't export the whole directory.

Any help welcome.

Answer 1

You can use git archive, as it takes a path command. So, in your post-update hook you can do something like

git archive $SHA HTML | (cd dir/where/html/should/go && tar x)

this first creates a tarball of the subdir, and pipes that tarball to a tar command to untar it in the specified directory

Answer 2

(just a suggestion, as it may not be applicable in your exact configuration)

You might consider adopting this Web-Focused Git Workflow which, instead of copying, does push your repo directly on the web directory.

(From Joe MALLER)

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Less complicated: Using Git to maintain your website (Daniel MIESSLER):

Daniel MIESSLER has an updated version of that same process:

Other suggestions are available at this SO question, like this post-update script mentioned in the Git FAQ.