Alright. There I am. Another cool guy with a blog powered by Jekyll.
Now I just need some content. A typical problem.
Anyway. The setup is fairly simple. I am using two directories for the blog.
One /srv/blog/source, in which I export the current repository data.
One /srv/blog/public, where Jekyll puts the generated page files.
Then I just had to install the following script as post-update hook
for my blog repository which executes this rule on every push.
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf /srv/blog/source/*
git --bare --git-dir=/home/git/repositories/blog.git archive master | tar xC /srv/blog/source
jekyll /srv/blog/source /srv/blog/public
Do not forget to make the hook executable:
$ chown +x /home/git/repositories/blog.git/hooks/post-update
Afterwards I configured my web server to serve my files from /srv/blog/public
Now with every push to my blogs repository it will automatically get deployed. What a wonderful world.