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+title: "Using server-side git hooks to auto publish blog posts"
+date: 2020-07-28T00:20:37+05:30
+draft: true
+---
+
+Git hooks are great to automate your software development workflow. They can
+also be used to implement CI/CD workflows. Many PaaS like netlify and heroku
+trigger a build process of your app or website when you push to a remote
+repository. In this post I want to go through how you could implement a similar
+process on a VPS for a static blog using just a bash script with nginx serving
+the files.
+
+
+## Setting up a remote git repository
+
+Setting up a remote git repository on the VPS is as easy as doing:
+
+```
+git init --bare website.git
+```
+
+Usually it's a practice of creating a new user called 'git' on your server to
+have access to your git repositories through ssh. I store my repositories in
+the home directory of the git user on my server. Then make sure that you have
+permissions to ssh as the 'git' user by including your ssh public in the
+~/.ssh/authororized_keys file. So my git clone command would look something
+like this:
+
+```
+git clone git@git.prithu.xyz:website
+```
+
+There are other ways you can set up a remote git repository - using the ssh or
+http protocols. I would suggest one reads the chapter [Git on the
+Server](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols) from
+the wonderful book on git - [Pro Git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) to get to
+know them.
+
+If I already have a local repository, then I just push to this new one by
+adding it as a remote using:
+
+```
+git remote add myserver git@git.prithu.xyz:website
+```
+
+I can also initialize a new repo and add a remote to it manually.
+
+```
+$ git init website
+$ cd website
+$ git remote add origin git@git.prithu.xyz:website
+$ cat "A repo for my website" > README.md
+$ git commit -am 'Initial commit'
+$ git push origin master
+```
+
+
+