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Heroku doesn't re-deploy my app when I git merge

I have been push useless commits just to ensure heroku reloads and redeploys my app after using git merge to make changes to master. Am I missing something?

EDIT Im deploying straight from git. Hence no git push heroku master.

Solution

  • To make your changes appear in the remote repo, you have to push them. Your normal dev cycle should be:

    • Create a branch

      git checkout -b NEW_BRANCH

    • Work & commit changes

      git commit -am "commit message"

    • if you work in the same branch with your teammates, then you can push changes to the remote repo, but it will only push to that branch

      git push REMOTE_REPO NEW_BRANCH

    • Merge your branch to master branch

      git checkout master

      git merge NEW_BRANCH

    • Push changes to the remote

      git push <REMOTE_NAME> master

    which in your caseREMOTE_NAME is heroku, so

    git push heroku master

    should send all your commits to deploy to heroku