Git: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:08, 2 September 2018

Usage

Create repository (on server)

git init
git init --bare

show changed files

git diff --cached --name-only
git diff --name-status

add files

git add *

commit changes

git commit -m "Commit-Nachricht"
git commit -a                      # includes add
git commit -am.

send changes to server

git push

get repository from server

git clone remoteurl

get latest changes from server

git pull

Configuration

post-receive hook (execute script on main git server, after receiving push): hooks/post-receive

#!/bin/bash
# unset GIT_INDEX_FILE # not needed for post-receive?
git --work-tree=/srv/targetfolder --git-dir=/home/demo/proj/.git checkout -f

or

#!/bin/bash
while read oldrev newrev ref
do
    if [[ $ref =~ .*/master$ ]];
    then
        echo "Master ref received.  Deploying master branch to production..."
        git --work-tree=/var/www/html --git-dir=/home/demo/proj checkout -f
    else
        echo "Ref $ref successfully received.  Doing nothing: only the master branch may be deployed on this server."
    fi
done

make executable

chmod +x post-receive

Special features

auto-commit when file changes

inotifywait -q -m -e CLOSE_WRITE --format="git commit -a -m 'autocommit on change' %w" file.txt | sh

or

while true; do
  inotifywait -qq -e CLOSE_WRITE ~/.calendar/calendar
  cd ~/.calendar; git commit -a -m 'autocommit on change'
done
# inotify "-r"  for recursive

or

etckeeper

or

gitwatch

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