how to copy file from local git to server filesystem?

Question

I am looking for a way to automate a deployment script. I choose to use fabric.

I can't figure out if there is a way to copy the local changed files to the server. I have seen many examples, but they all using github or an origin git installed in the server.

I would like to do something like :

get changed files from local and add them in server

Answer 1

Use something like

import subprocess
subprocess.call(["git","pull","fromlocalmachine"])

Answer 2

In addition to Synthetica's answer, is is a simple deployment script that, grabbed from sametmax.com :

from fabric.api import local, run, cd, env, prefix

REMOTE_WORKING_DIR = '/path/to/project'

env.hosts = ['siteweb.com']
env.user = 'username'

def push(branch='master', remote='origin', runlocal=True):
    if runlocal:
        # run command locally
        local("git push %s %s" % (remote, branch))
    else:
        # run command on remote hosts
        run("git push %s %s" % (remote, branch))

def pull(branch='master', remote='origin', runlocal=True):
    if runlocal:
        local("git pull %s %s" % (remote, branch))
    else:
        run("git pull %s %s" % (remote, branch))

def sync(branch='master', remote='origin', runlocal=True):
    pull(branch, remote, runlocal)
    push(branch, remote, runlocal)

def deploy(branch='master', remote='origin'):
    with cd(REMOTE_WORKING_DIR):
        with prefix('workon virtualenv'): # replace by your virtual env name
            pull(branch, remote, False)
            run("./manage.py collectstatic --noinput")

Now, you can run fab sync to sync your git repository with your git server, and fab deploy to deploy it. (or fab sync deploy to do both).