ember-cli-deploy-git

This is an ember-cli-deploy plugin for deploying your built application to a git branch. It's particularly handy for deploying to GitHub Pages.

If you have a recent version of git that supports git worktree, and you're deploying to the same repo you're working in, we automatically use git worktree to avoid any extra cloning.

Installation

ember install ember-cli-deploy ember-cli-deploy-build ember-cli-deploy-git

Configuration

In config/deploy.js, (which ember-cli-deploy will helpfully generate for you), you can pass the following options:

branch: The branch that we will deploy to. It must already exist. Defaults to "gh-pages"
repo: The repo that we will deploy to. It defaults to the value of your containing repo's origin remote.
worktreePath: Path where we will create/update a working tree to manipulate the deployment branch. Defaults to ../deploy-${project.name()}, relative to your project.
destDir: A directory within the given branch that we will deploy to. Defaults to the root of the repo.
commitMessage: Message to use when committing the deployment, where %@ is replaced with the current git revision.

A complete example:

ENV.git = {
  repo: 'git@github.com:ef4/ember-cli-deploy-git.git',
  branch: 'deploys',
  worktreePath: '/tmp/ef4-deploy',
  commitMessage: 'Deployed %@'
};

Usage

Github Pages First-Time Setup

Make sure the branch named gh-pages exists. If it doesn't, you can do git checkout --orphan gh-pages; git commit --allow-empty; git push -u origin gh-pages.
Configure your application to run correctly in the Github environment by setting these things in your config/environment.js:

if (environment === 'production') {
  ENV.rootURL = '/your-repo-name';
  ENV.locationType = 'hash';
}

Add demoURL to your package.json's ember-addon section to be picked up by https://www.emberaddons.com and https://emberobserver.com:

"ember-addon": {
  "configPath": "tests/dummy/config",
  "demoURL": "http://your-user-name.github.io/your-repo-name"
}

If you're using Ember-CLI 2.6 or older, you will need to use baseURL instead of rootURL.

Coordination With Other Plugins

This plugin checks out the target branch during the prepare phase of the deploy, and writes the new build output there during the upload phase. Between those two phases, the location of this checkout is available at context.gitDeploy.worktreePath for other plugins that wish to pull information from the previous deployed commit.

How to Deploy

ember deploy production