Using Git to Publish Website

Remote Server (production server)

Create an new empty bare git repository

$ mkdir mywebsite.git
$ cd mywebsite.git
$ git init --bare
$ touch hooks/post-receive

Insert and save the following value in the hooks/post-receive file:

#!/bin/bash

GIT_WORK_TREE=/var/www/mywebsite.com

export GIT_WORK_TREE
if [ ! -d $GIT_WORK_TREE ]; then
  mkdir -p $GIT_WORK_TREE
fi
git checkout -f

cd to your git repository and run these commands(replace the user, ip and path values from your production server):

$ git remote add mywebsite ssh://mike@192.168.1.1:22/home/mike/mywebsite.git
$ git push mywebsite master