[SOLVED] is there a way to accept any branch under the release branch in post-receive?

is there a way to accept any branch under the release branch in post-receive?

I 'm currently pushing to this accept server and, every time that I create a new release, I have to change the BRANCH that is accepted on line 4 of the code, how do I make it so that anything coming from release/ is accepted? I was thinking about something like BRANCH=release/* would that work?

#!/bin/bash
TARGET="<path_to_site>"
GIT_DIR="<path_to_repo>"
BRANCH="release/1.7"

while read oldrev newrev ref
do
    # only checking out the master (or whatever branch you would like to deploy)
        if [[ $ref = refs/heads/$BRANCH ]];
        then
                echo "Ref $ref received. Deploying ${BRANCH} branch to production..."
                git --work-tree=$TARGET --git-dir=$GIT_DIR checkout -f

        else
                echo "Ref $ref received. Doing nothing: only the ${BRANCH} branch may be deployed on this server."
        fi
done

Solution

You can use the == operator in Bash to do a regex comparison in the if statement:

if [[ $ref == *"release/"* ]];
then
    # ...
else
    # ...
fi

This would match any reference that contains the string "release/", like for example "refs/heads/release/1.7".