How to push changes from a Plesk site to a remote Git repo

Question

Is it possible to commit changes made in Plesk to a remote Git repository? e.g. perform git push from Plesk to GitHub or BitBucket.

Answer

The Git extension for Plesk is only able to deploy files from a remote repo into the local Plesk repo, but not the other way around and that is so by design.

A feature that would let you commit changes from the Plesk server to the git repo is not yet available for this extension, however such a feature request has already been made and you may view and vote for it on the following link:

Git extension deploy using git's own worktree – Your Ideas for Plesk

Until such a feature does become available via the extension, as a workaround, you may use the following native commands for git in order to push changes to the git repo that is used.

Warning: The steps below will allow Git commands to be used, however they have not been tested extensively, due to which they are unsupported and should be applied only at your own will and risk.

1. In Plesk > Domains > example.com > Hosting & DNS > Web Hosting Access, change SSH access to /bin/bash for the site user:

   

2. Log into the server via SSH as the site user (replace jdoe with the system user). This can be done from Tools & Settings > SSH Terminal:

   # su -l jdoe

3. Set up the Git preferences (this needs to be done only once):

   # git config --global user.email "[email protected]"git config --global user.name "John Doe"

4. With the preferences setup done, you should be able to push the changes manually by using the commands in the following example (replace the example as necessary):

   # git --git-dir ./git/example.git --work-tree ./httpdocs/example add --all
   # git --git-dir ./git/example.git --work-tree ./httpdocs/example commit -m "comment"
   # git --git-dir ./git/example.git --work-tree ./httpdocs/example push