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Say I have a Git repo folder where I do all my development. The master branch represents the production code and any development is merged in from different branches, as required. That's all fine. What if, now, I wanted to push the master branch somewhere within my local filesystem (e.g., a sibling folder), whenever I want to roll the master branch out to production?

Is this possible, with Git? For instance, say I have my project in ~/development/myProject-dev, can I push just the master branch into ~/development/myProject as a live mirror; that is, ~/development/myProject is publicly accessible, whereas its -dev brother has restricted access?

If this is fine, it seems like a good solution because ~/development/myProject will also be a repo and can always be rolled back to a stable state, if say the changes made in development introduced a bug. Would you agree that this is a viable workflow? Are there better approaches (e.g., Git hooks, etc.)?

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You can push can do pulls and pushes locally with git. You can also clone only one branch into a new repository:

git clone ~/development/myProject-dev -b master ~/development/myProject

This command should clone only the master branch from your myProject-dev repo.

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Are there any advantages of clone over push (or vice versa) in this instance?
I believe that a 'clone' is very similar to a 'init' followed by a 'pull' (plus adding a remote called "origin"). After you have done either of these you will need to keep it up to date with the origin by doing 'git pull origin master'
Ah, I see: So you control the mirroring from the mirror, so to speak, rather than pushing from myProject-dev whenever necessary?
Exactly, you push from the original and pull from the other

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