Deploy a Symfony website with Git on OVH shared server

Question

I want to configure an automatic deployment of my Symfony website directly from git to my ovh server (Performance offer - with SSH access).

I followed these ovh instructions : https://docs.ovh.com/fr/fr/web/hosting/24-days/day07/

1. installed composer in $HOME/bin
2. created a distant git repository $HOME/depot_git_beta with git init --bare

3. created a post-receive file at $HOME/depot_git_beta/hooks

   #!/bin/bash
   
   # Hook post-receive
   
   # Force source bash profile to update PATH
   source ~/.bash_profile
   source ~/.bashrc
   
   GIT_REPO=$HOME/depot_git_beta
   DEPLOY_DIR=$HOME/beta
   
   # Go to deploy directory to load ovhconfig
   cd $DEPLOY_DIR
   ovhConfig
   cd -
   
   while read prevsha1 newsha1 ref
   do
       if [[ $ref =~ .*/develop$ ]];
       then
           echo "Deploying develop branch to beta..."
           git --work-tree=$DEPLOY_DIR --git-dir=$GIT_REPO checkout -f
           cd $DEPLOY_DIR
   
           # Install vendors
           composer install --no-dev --no-interaction
           echo "Vendors updated!"
   
           # Update database
           php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
           echo "Database for beta environment updated!"
   
           # Clear cache
           php bin/console cache:clear --env=dev
           php bin/console cache:clear --env=prod
           echo "Cache cleared!"
   
       else
           echo "Ref: $ref isn't develop. Nothing to do on beta"
       fi
   done
   

4. add the distant repository

   git remote add ovh [email protected]:depot_git_beta
   

5. but when I do git push ovh develop it does seems to work, git bash tells it's up to date, but nothing seems to have happened in ovh server.

Any idea what went wrong or where I should look first ?

Answer 1

The problem was essentially that as I was not deploying the master branch, I had to precise it in this line:

$ git --work-tree=... --git-dir=... checkout -f develop

See this very helpful answer!

(And thank you piarson for helping me to find the solution!)