Git service deploy hooks
 

Is anyone using git on a local machine to manage code on your remote servers? Currently doing some research on using hooks to pull changes after a commit to my remote repo.

What language are you using? I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do.

Usually I have a local git repo, push to remote and then pull that remote on my deploy server. This is quite common I believe.

If you are using Ruby then use Cappuccino and if you are using Python then use Fabric.

You can use either for any language and then integrate well with git.

Currently, I manually pull on the production server after a local push to remote. I was looking at the hooks. I found this info that would work well if you have a repo on the same production server.
http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

i use git on my server to push changes to github, i also have a local git server, which i push to my dedicated (you can do this without running the actual git daemon)

Yes, have been doing so for a while.
I use a repo like Bitbucket.org that have post commit triggers. This fires a script on a box that deploys to remote machines. Conditional options based on the branch means I can fire to master or branches/staging at will. Their triggers are nice Json so has everything you need in it, they also have hooks for a few others as well.
Presumably you are aiming for continuous integration, I'm looking to expand the deployments to include phplint, linkchecker and drive some phpUnit tests as well.