Miyazaki, 2. November 2022

How to deploy with git

As a big fan of the IndieWeb, I'd like to inform you that you don't need GitHub, render, netlify or other apps to host and deploy your own website. A Linux VPS is enough.

Set up a VPS with SSH access. Set up SSH key login in ~/.ssh (Works on windows too!)
```
Host example.com
  User yourUser
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/keyfile
  IdentitiesOnly yes
```
Run ssh example.com in the terminal
Run git init in the folder of your choice on the server.
Run git config receive.denycurrentbranch updateInstead
On the local system run: git add remote origin ssh://example.com:/path/to/your/repo/.git
Now you can push and pull to your server and the folder will update!

This is how I published this blogpost!

Common Error that is solved:

If we don't set git config receive.denycurrentbranch updateInstead we will get this error:

remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
 remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
 remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent
 remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match
 remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.

SSH with password: avoid reentring the password on windows:

See How to run ssh-add on windows