Updater

An updater for simple web-based, git-based projects.

Author: Stoney Jackson (dr.stoney@gmail.com) License: LGPL V3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)

Might be for you if ...

• You use git.
• You have a simple web-based project.
• You're deploying to an Apache web-server.
• You use tags to mark releases.
• You store the version number, and only the version number, in /VERSION of your project, and it only contains the version number on the first line.
• You want a more automated way to update deployements to the most resent release.

Requires

• bash (developed with GNU bash, version 4.2)
• PHP if web access is desired (developed with 5.4)
• git (developed with version 1.8)
• ssh (developed with OpenSSH 6.2)

Install

Copy src/ to your project and give it an appropriate name (updater here).

$ cp -R src/ /path/to/project/updater

Set the correct version in your project (if necessary).

$ cd /path/to/project
$ echo "1.0" > VERSION

Set the url to the repository.

$ cd updater/private
$ cp REPOSITORY.example REPOSITORY
$ vim REPOSITORY

Set the repository branch that contains releases.

$ cp BRANCH.example BRANCH
$ vim BRANCH

Set the password for web access control.

$ cp PASSWORD.example PASSWORD
$ vim PASSWORD

Generate deployment key. Do not provide a passphrase. Install deployment-key.pub in .ssh/authorized-keys on the server hosting the git repository.

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "deployment-key" -f deployment-key

Using Updater via Web

Point browser to deployed/updater

Apply Patch Created by git format-patch via Web

Point browser to deployed/updater/patch.php