I’m still in the process of learning Git, and while it’s been fairly rough in the beginning, I feel like I’m starting to round the curve of really being productive. While we are still primarily using Subversion at Kongregate, I’ve been trying to use Git whenever possible.

For a side project I’ve been working on, I wanted to have my authoritative Git repo in our colo, behind our VPN, to both speed up deploys and to know that we don’t need to rely on a third party service. But, at the same time, I wanted to be able to use Github’s awesome UI.

hooks/post-receive

There’s not a lot to it, but just set up Github as a remote for your server side repo, then drop this into your hooks/post-receive and be sure to make it executable:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
STDIN.read.split("\n").each do |line|
   oldrev, newrev, refname = line.split(' ')
   
   if refname.match(/^refs\/heads\/(.*)/)
     branch = $1
   
     `git push origin #{branch}`
   else
     puts "#{refname} was weird, not sure what to do."
   end
end

Nothing too special, but I was pretty happy to get it all working without too much effort.