Can I 'push' all the files in my git repository to my ftp server (live production)?

Question

I just started (barely) to somewhat understand and use git. I'm using github and cloud9 IDE.

I figured out how to save (commit and then push ?) files to the github repository...

question:

Is there a command that will upload (and overwrite) files from my git to my ftp server where my website is hosted?

I've checked this question, but I'm not sure I want a .git on my server (unless I can still run my site off it).

I've also checked this question, but I'm not sure I can install anything on my server.

Is this not as simple as I thought it would be?

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Git is not an FTP client. But you could create a post-commit hook to do this. A git hook is a shell script which is executed with certain actions. You could use this to upload all of your source files to your FTP server when you do a commit. For more information about hooks, see:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/githooks.html

Answer 2

If you are working on the commandline - use lftp to ftp your files to your host. lftp is highly scriptable and will allow you to add it to a post-commit hook if you so desire.

If you are using a gui - you can try filezilla or any number of other ftp clients to move your files to your server.

If this is a project that you want other to work on in the future, you can consider learning capistrano for automatic deployments and ease of releases.