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POhow do I deploy multiple branches to different directories via git push?
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    copied!<p>In production, I maintain two sites - beta and release. Each points to a different directory via a soft link (e.g.)</p> <pre><code>beta_public_html -&gt; /home/scott/myapp/trunk/public public_html -&gt; /home/scott/myapp/branches/1.2.3/public </code></pre> <p>I'm a longtime svn user, moving to git. I'm used to deploying via svn update and changing the soft link on a new branch, things are pretty simple.</p> <p>Now I'm moving to git. I still need to have the two soft links (it's a Rails app using Passenger), though now I want them to point to two different git branches ("beta" and "release", say). And I want to be able to update them via git push (or git pull).</p> <p>Question Part 1: I'm not sure the best way to do this.</p> <p>The way I had started to do it was to just deploy to two different remotes, e.g.</p> <pre><code>git push ssh://scott@x.com/home/scott/myapp-beta beta git push ssh://scott@x.com/home/scott/myapp-release release </code></pre> <p>But this doesn't work because push doesn't update the working tree by default. </p> <p>So I go into the remote directories and run git reset --hard the first time, and it pulls the working tree. But I push again and I can't get the new push to show up - it just stays at the initial one.</p> <p>(BTW, note that I can't seem to push to "myapp-beta.git" - that fails, I have to push to the directory name. I am worried that this is part of the problem, but I don't know what I did wrong here.)</p> <p>So, if the answer to Question 1 is that my method is fine, Question Part 2: what's wrong with what I'm actually doing? If there are hooks I should be using, can someone point me to them?</p> <p>(An answer to Question 1 that says "run these seven manual steps" will not be a terribly useful answer, seeing as svn checkout + ln -s are two steps.)</p> <p>Thanks. I want to get back to writing code.</p>
 

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