execute git commands on git push

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Is there a way to execute couple of git commands when I git push to master? What I'm having in mind is, once i did a git push for grunt to execute:

git checkout gh-pages
git merge master
git checkout master

Any particular reason why you want to execute the above steps using grunt? Are you on Windows or Linux? — Michael Herrmann, Aug 28 '13 at 10:31

Michael Herrmann · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-28T10:59:10.113

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Why do you want to use Grunt to execute these commands? I think a normal shell script would suffice. Assuming you are on Linux, create an executable file called post-receive in the .git/hooks subdirectory, with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
export GIT_WORK_TREE=$GIT_DIR/..
git checkout gh-pages
git merge master
git checkout master

For more information search this page for "post-receive hook".

edited Aug 28 '13 at 10:59

answered Aug 28 '13 at 10:20

Michael Herrmann

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

You can do that in a post-receive hook, which would:

go to a non-bare repo (meaning you need 2 repos on the server side: one bare, one non-bare)
git pull from the same bare repo you just pushed to
checkout, merge, checkout

You have an example in "how do I deploy multiple branches to different directories via git push?", but you need to complete that script an unset GIT_DIR, to be sure git takes into account the right non-bare repo after the cd /path/to/non/bar/repo.

execute git commands on git push

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