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I have ftp server and I cannot install additional software on it. Is it possible to create on it git repository and clone to local pc? I tried to create local repository and copied it to ftp. Will it work? How can I clone from ftp server?
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Once you've connected your GitHub repository, you'll be automatically directed to the New Server screen. Here, you'll be able to enter a name for your server, then choose FTP as the protocol. We've created a simple free hosting site so we'll just use the same details here we'd enter when connecting via our FTP client.
Git-ftp is an FTP client using Git (http://git-scm.org) to determine which local files to upload or which files to delete on the remote host. It saves the deployed state by uploading the SHA1 hash in the . git-ftp. log file. There is no need for Git to be installed on the remote host.
There are various other questions on StackOverflow that discuss this subject, e.g.:
... which might have a solution that's suitable for your case.
You don't say what operating system you're using, but if it's Linux-based what I would try is to mount the FTP server as part of your local filesystem with FUSE + fuseftp. If you're using Mac OS, you could similarly try MacFuse. (n.b. I've never tried fuseftp, myself, so I'm not in a position to recommend or disrecommend it.) No doubt there are equivalents for Windows as well.
Then you should just be able to run git init --bare in the mounted directory and push and pull from it as it it were a local repository. You should also enable the example post-update hook so that git update-server-info is run after each push - otherwise people will have problems when interacting with the server with an ftp:// repository URL.
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It will work if Git is running on the server.
But from what you are describing, I would guess it isn't.
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