{"id":49777,"date":"2018-06-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=49777"},"modified":"2018-06-27T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:00:00","slug":"git-version-control-soon-with-automatic-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/git-version-control-soon-with-automatic-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Git Version Control: Soon with Automatic Deployment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the sixth and final blog post in a series around Git and a new feature in version 72,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/72Docs\/Git+Version+Control\">Git Version Control<\/a>.\u00a0 See the full list of entries in this series at the end of this post!\u00a0This post talks about something that we&#8217;re adding in Version 74, which we expect will be entering EDGE sometime during the first week of July, and will be headed to CURRENT sometime in July!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you have been following along on the\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/features.cpanel.net\/topic\/allow-users-to-install-websites-from-version-control\" rel=\"nofollow\">feature request site<\/a>, you already know about our new feature, Git Version Control. We&#8217;re designing it to make hosting repositories as easy for developers as a &#8220;Hello World!&#8221; script\u00a0\u2014 and, in cPanel &amp; WHM Version 74, we&#8217;re adding deployment to the mix, too!<\/p>\n<p>This feature will let you create and manage repositories\u00a0<strong>and<\/strong>\u00a0view change history in a friendly interface.\u00a0A lot of Git&#8217;s functionality requires\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/CKB\/How+to+Access+the+Command+Line\" rel=\"nofollow\">command line<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/CKB\/Getting+Started+with+Linux+Commands\" rel=\"nofollow\">knowledge<\/a>, but don&#8217;t worry! It&#8217;s easy to learn. Here&#8217;s the rundown on what you can expect from our new deployment functionality.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"BlogPost-GitVersionControl:NowwithDeployment!-AutomaticandManualDeployment\">Automatic and Manual Deployment<\/h3>\n<p>cPanel&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/74Docs\/Git+Version+Control\">Git Version Control<\/a><\/em>\u00a0feature (<em>cPanel &gt;&gt; Home &gt;&gt; Files &gt;&gt; Git Version Control<\/em>) automatically adds a\u00a0<code>post-receive<\/code>\u00a0hook to all cPanel-managed repositories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you push changes\u00a0<strong>directly<\/strong>\u00a0to a cPanel-managed repository that includes a\u00a0<code>.cpanel.yml<\/code>\u00a0file, the hook deploys those changes\u00a0<strong>automatically<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>For more information, read Git&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/git-scm.com\/docs\/githooks\" rel=\"nofollow\">githooks<\/a>\u00a0documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2018-5-17_10-52-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2018-5-17_10-52-6.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Automatic or &#8220;push&#8221; deployment of a website<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With automatic or push deployment, a single\u00a0<code>git push<\/code>\u00a0command sends changes from your local computer to your cPanel-managed repository. The system then automatically runs the commands in your\u00a0<code>.cpanel.yml<\/code>\u00a0file to send changes from the cPanel-managed repository to a production directory. (For example, to the directory that contains your website&#8217;s public files.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2018-5-17_10-50-53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/image2018-5-17_10-50-53.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Manual or &#8220;pull&#8221; deployment of a website with a remote repository<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With manual or pull deployment, the\u00a0<code>git push<\/code>\u00a0command sends changes from your local computer to a remote repository. When you click\u00a0<em>Update from Remote<\/em>\u00a0in the\u00a0<em>Manage<\/em>\u00a0section of the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/74Docs\/Git+Version+Control\">Git Version Control<\/a><\/em>\u00a0interface (<em>cPanel &gt;&gt; Home &gt;&gt; Files &gt;&gt; Git Version Control<\/em>), the system retrieves changes from the remote repository and applies them to the cPanel-managed repository. When you click\u00a0<em>Deploy HEAD Commit<\/em>, the system runs the commands in your\u00a0<code>.cpanel.yml<\/code>\u00a0file to send changes from the cPanel-managed repository to a production directory. (For example, to the directory that contains your website&#8217;s public files.) For a valid .cpanel.yml file, check our documentation site: <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/CKB\/Guide+to+Git+-+How+to+Set+Up+Deployment\">Guide to Git: How to set up deployment<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"BlogPost-GitVersionControl:NowwithDeployment!-Prerequisites\">Prerequisites<\/h3>\n<p>Before deployment, repositories\u00a0<strong>must<\/strong>\u00a0meet the following requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A valid checked-in\u00a0<code>.cpanel.yml<\/code>\u00a0file in the top-level directory.<\/li>\n<li>One or more local or remote branches.<\/li>\n<li>One or more local commits.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/CKB\/Guide+to+Git+-+Git+Terms\">clean working tree<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a repository does\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0meet these requirements, the system will\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0display deployment information and will disable deployment functionality.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"BlogPost-GitVersionControl:NowwithDeployment!-Awesome,right?\">Awesome, right?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/what-if-i-told-you-we-have-continuous-deployment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/what-if-i-told-you-we-have-continuous-deployment.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already use Git, we hope that this\u00a0feature will knock your socks off! If you don&#8217;t, we&#8217;re hoping we can help you start!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A note fro<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">m benny: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ready to give it a shot? The Git Version Control feature is already available to any server on the RELEASE tier. You can join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/go.cpanel.net\/slack\">slack<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/go.cpanel.net\/discord\">discord<\/a> channels, post your questions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.cpanel.net\/\">cPanel forums<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cpanel\/\">subreddit<\/a>, or come visit Houston, Texas for the <a href=\"https:\/\/conference.cpanel.com\/\">2018 cPanel Conference<\/a>, October 1st &#8211; 3rd. Need to catch up on the previous posts about Git Version control? Here they are!<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/git-version-control-series-what-is-git\/\">What is\u00a0Git?<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/git-version-control-series-what-can-you-do-with-git-version-control\/\">Introducing the Git Version Control interface<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/git-version-control-series-introducing-gitweb\/\">Introducing Gitweb<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/git-version-control-series-setting-up-git\/\"><em>Setting Up Git<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/git-version-control-series-git-problems-and-how-to-fix-them\/\"><em>Git Problems and How to Fix Them<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Git Version Control: Soon with Automatic Deployment!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sixth and final blog post in a series around Git and a new feature in version 72,\u00a0Git Version Control.\u00a0 See the full list of entries in this series at the end of this post!\u00a0This post talks about something that we&#8217;re adding in Version 74, which we expect will be entering EDGE sometime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[653,2025,1869,2113,2089],"class_list":["post-49777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-git","tag-git-version-control","tag-v72","tag-v74","tag-version-control"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Git Version Control: Soon with Automatic Deployment! 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