heroku Deployment Deploying with Git

Example

Tracking your app in git

Before you can push an app to Heroku, you’ll need to initialize a local Git repository and commit your files to it. For example, if you have an app in a directory, myapp, then create a new repository for it:

$ cd myapp
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "my first commit"
Created initial commit 5df2d09: my first commit
 44 files changed, 8393 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README
 create mode 100644 Procfile
 create mode 100644 app/controllers/source_file
...

This is a local repository, now residing inside the .git directory. Nothing has been sent anywhere yet; you’ll need to create a remote and do a push to deploy your code to Heroku.

Creating a Heroku remote

$ heroku create
Creating falling-wind-1624... done, stack is cedar-14
http://falling-wind-1624.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/falling-wind-1624.git
Git remote heroku added

Git repository with an existing application. The heroku git:remote command will add this remote for you based on your applications git url.

$ heroku git:remote -a falling-wind-1624
Git remote heroku added.

Deploying code

you'll need to specify a remote branch to push to. You can do your first push:

$ git push heroku master
Initializing repository, done.
updating 'refs/heads/master'
...

To push a branch other than master, use this syntax:

$ git push heroku yourbranch:master