This is a lightweight utility script that synchronizes the local file system with updates from a BitBucket project.
This script keeps the files deployed on dedicated or shared-hosting web-servers in sync with the updates made on a BitBucket project.
It is intended to be used on a web-server which is reachable from the internet and which can accept POST requests coming from BitBucket. It works by getting all the updates from a BitBucket project and applying them to a local copy of the project files.
For example, supposing you have a website which is deployed on a shared-hosting server, and the source code is stored in a private repository in BitBucket. This script allows you to automatically update the deployed website each time you push changes to the BitBucket project. This way, you don't have to manually copy any file from your working directory to the hosting server.
BitBucket Sync will synchronize only the files which have been modified, thus reducing the network traffic and deploy times.
This script requires PHP 5.3+ with cURL and Zip extensions enabled and any web-server offering PHP support (most shared web hosting solutions should work fine).
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Get the source code for this script from BitBucket, either using Git, or downloading directly:
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To download using git, install git and then type
git clone [email protected]:alixandru/bitbucket-sync.git bitbucket-sync -
To download directly, go to the project page and click on Download
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Copy the source files to your web-server in a location which is accessible from the internet (usually
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Adjust configuration file
config.phpwith information related to your environment and BitBucket projects that you want to keep in sync (see Configuration section). -
Perform an initial import of each project, through which all the project files are copied to the web-server file-system (see Notes section below).
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Configure all your BitBucket projects that you want to keep synchronized to post commit information to your web server through the POST service hook. See more information on how to create a service hook in BitBucket. The POST URL should point to the
gateway.phpscript. For example,http://mysite.ext/bitbucket-sync/gateway.php. -
Start pushing commits to your BitBucket projects and see if the changes are reflected on your web server. Depending on the configuration, you might need to manually trigger the synchronization by accessing the
deploy.phpscript through your web server (i.e.http://mysite.ext/bitbucket-sync/deploy.php).
This script has two complementary modes of operation detailed below.
This is the default mode which is used when the deploy.php script is accessed with no parameters in the URL. In this mode, the script updates only the files which have been modified by a commit that was pushed to the repository.
The script reads commit information saved locally by the gateway script and attempts to synchronize the local file-system with the updates that have been made in the BitBucket project. The list of files which have been changed (added, updated or deleted) will be taken from the commit files. This script tries to optimize the synchronization by not processing files more than once.
This mode can be enabled by specifying the setup GET parameter in the URL in which case, the script will get the full repository from BitBucket and deploy it locally. This is achieved through getting a zip archive of the project, extracting it locally and copying its contents over to the specified project location, on the local file-system.
This operation mode does not necessarily need a POST service hook to be defined in BitBucket for the project and is generally suited for initial set-up of projects that will be kept in sync with this script.
If your repository is called my-library, you need to configure it in the config.php file with a proper folder location and optionally a deploy branch. After this step, simply access the script deploy.php with the parameter ?setup=my-library (i.e. http://mysite.ext/bitbucket-sync/deploy.php?setup=my-library). It is advisable to have verbose mode enabled, to see exactly what is happening.
By default, the script will attempt to get the project from a repository created under your name (i.e. if your user is johndoe, it will try to get the repository johndoe/my-library). If the project belongs to a team or to another user, use the URL parameter team to specify it. For example, accessing http://mysite.ext/bitbucket-sync/deploy.php?setup=my-library&team=doeteam will fetch the project doeteam/my-library. Useful also for forks.
Once the import is complete, you can go on and setup the service hook in BitBucket and start pushing changes to your project.
Firstly the script needs to have access to your BitBucket project files through the BitBucket API. If your project is private, you need to provide the user name and password of a BitBucket account with read access to the repository.
Then the script needs to know where to put the files locally once they are fetched from the BitBucket servers. The branch of the repository to deploy and a few other items can also be configured.
All of this information can be provided in the config.php file. Detailed descriptions of all configuration items is contained as comments in the file.
v2.0.0
- Implemented the ability to fully synchronize the project by getting the entire project content at once.
v1.0.0
- Initial public release, which supports only synchronizing files which were changed.
This code has not been extensively tested on highly active, large BitBucket projects. You should perform your own tests before using this on a live (production) environment for projects with a high number of updates.
This code has been tested with Git repositories only, however Mercurial projects should theoretically work fine as well.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.