Alan Chandler

Alan Chandler

Having first written software at age 11 and still writing it today at age 70 Alan Chandler qualifies as an ancient geek. He enjoys playing the piano having started again in 2017 after not touching one for 55 years

Having fun with GIT

It was just yesterday morning that a light came on in my head and I understood just what the index file was for in git. It seemed to strip away the fear that I was always not quite sure what I was doing, and allowed me to experiment a bit to see what I could do.

Well I have been playing with the post-update hook. As a result, I can now

  • push a update from my working machine into a repository embedded within this web site. The arrival of a new update triggers it to check out this new version so that the web server automatically gets the new version to work with.
  • push to any of the public repositories on this machine a new tag (ie release) and it automatically makes a tar ball of the whole code and puts it into the downloads directory

I haven’t (yet) got it automatically deploying new versions of my applications – but I am sure it will not be long:-)