Re: Managing websites with git

Hello,

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:30:30PM +0100 or thereabouts, Felix Andersen wrote:

Hi!

Is it a bad idea to manage websites (php/xhtml/css) by having a origin
non-bare repo in the hosted dir with the hook mentioned here:
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b96f48bc9c925074be9f95c0fce69bcece5f6e73.
I was thinking about any security issues with the .git dir being
hosted. Or is that even the right way to do it?

One really should not push to a non-bare repo.  IIRC there was a patch
recently to disallow it, but I do not remember if it was merged into
HEAD.

Since I knew the patch was coming I rewrote my scripts to use a bare
repo in /var/git, and push the changes to /var/www whenever I push to
the remote repo.

I wrote my post-update to be something like the following.

#!/bin/bash
LIVE="/var/www/statichacks/blosxom"

ref=$1

cd $GIT_DIR
echo "Pushing updates to $LIVE..."
git archive --format=tar $ref | tar -C $LIVE --atime-preserve -xpf -

There may be an easier way to do it, but that script took me about 5
minutes to write and test.

Dave