I use git hooks for my Django deployments and it couldn't be simpler. My post-receive hook look like this:

#!/bin/sh

dest=/var/www/myproj

GIT_WORK_TREE=$dest git checkout -f

$dest/manage.py collectstatic --noinput

$dest/manage.py migrate

touch $dest/myproj/wsgi.py

Running a git push to the prod server fires this hook and that's all. I could improve it by first checking out to a test environment to run django tests and, if everything passes, do a git checkout to production.

Plus, am I the only one using apache?