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Xophmeister
Xophmeister

Reputation: 9211

Git push witihin local filesystem; viable workflow solution?

Say I have a Git repo folder where I do all my development. The master branch represents the production code and any development is merged in from different branches, as required. That's all fine. What if, now, I wanted to push the master branch somewhere within my local filesystem (e.g., a sibling folder), whenever I want to roll the master branch out to production?

Is this possible, with Git? For instance, say I have my project in ~/development/myProject-dev, can I push just the master branch into ~/development/myProject as a live mirror; that is, ~/development/myProject is publicly accessible, whereas its -dev brother has restricted access?

If this is fine, it seems like a good solution because ~/development/myProject will also be a repo and can always be rolled back to a stable state, if say the changes made in development introduced a bug. Would you agree that this is a viable workflow? Are there better approaches (e.g., Git hooks, etc.)?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1468

Answers (1)

Alex Stuckey
Alex Stuckey

Reputation: 1260

You can push can do pulls and pushes locally with git. You can also clone only one branch into a new repository:

git clone ~/development/myProject-dev -b master ~/development/myProject

This command should clone only the master branch from your myProject-dev repo.

Upvotes: 2

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