#!/bin/bash TARGET="/var/www/html/master" GIT_DIR="/var/www/html/repo.git" BRANCH="master" while read oldrev newrev ref do # only checking out the master (or whatever branch you would like to deploy) if [[ $ref = refs/heads/$BRANCH ]]; then echo "Ref $ref received. Deploying ${BRANCH} branch to production..." git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f else echo "Ref $ref received. Doing nothing: only the ${BRANCH} branch may be deployed on this server." fi done