Git-auto-pull

What is it ?

In short, git-auto-pull is a little javascript utility to automatically do a 'git pull' on a server when something new is pushed to the git repository.

Usage

Get it

npm install git-auto-pull

or

git clone https://github.com/Keenpoint/git-auto-pull

Prepare it

You should create a git post-receive hook (see https://git-scm.com/book/it/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks) in the hook directory of your git repository. It could be like this:

#!/bin/sh

curl here.the.ip.of.the.machine:1337

here.the.ip.of.the.machine being the ip of the machine containing the project to update and 1337 is the port listened by git-auto-pull (by default).

Or if you have multiple branches and you just want to update the server when a change occurs on master:

#!/bin/bash
while read oldrev newrev refname
do
    branch=$(git rev-parse --symbolic --abbrev-ref $refname)
    if [ "master" == "$branch" ]; then
        curl here.the.ip.of.the.machine:1337
    fi
done

(As found on: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7351551/writing-a-git-post-receive-hook-to-deal-with-a-specific-branch by Pauljz)

Run it

node git-auto-pull.js relative/Path/To/Your/Project [cmds]

[cmds] : Optionnal parameters. You can add some commands to be executed in the given order after the git pull. The commands are executed from the given relative/Path/To/Your/Project project directory.

Ex:

node git-auto-pull.js ../myProject "gulp build"

Here, the script will execute git pull in your project and then build it with gulp.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.