Git Push into Production (FTP)

Question

I would like to know if there is an easy way to push a GIT repository into production (on a FTP server) ? Thanks

Solution 1

Some tools recently added to the Git wiki:

git-ftp by René Moser is a simple shell script for doing FTP the Git way. Use git-ftp.sh to upload only the Git tracked files to a FTP server, which have changed since the last upload. This saves time and bandwith. Even if you play with different branches, git-ftp.sh knows which files are different. No ordinary FTP client can do that.

git-ftp by Edward Z. Yang is a simple script written in python for uploading files in a Git repository via FTP, only transferring new files and removing old files.

Solution 2

If you prefer GUI, use SourceTree, you can easily setup a Custom Action that uses git-ftp mentioned above. A brief description on setup (for Mac) at Push a Git repository to an FTP

Solution 3

I've found PHPloy a great tool for sending your Git commits to remote servers over FTP. It works from the command-line and is written in PHP (and even detects changes in submodules).

https://github.com/banago/PHPloy‎

git commit ...
phploy -s staging
phploy -s production

Done!

(Disclaimer: after using it for a while I've now contributed some code patches and improvements, making it Windows-compatible.)

Solution 4

If you're on a mac and have Transmit, I'd recommend the following git-tranmit script (https://gist.github.com/379750). It uses DockSend to send only the last updated files. If you're not familiar with DockSend, check out http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/11/15-secrets-of-transmit/.

Setup:

1. cp git-transit /usr/sbin/.
2. cd /usr/sbin
3. chmod +x git-transmit
4. Setup drop send for your live app
5. Run git-transmit in your git repository.

Solution 5

You could use Deployhq.com it works like a charm, the only thing you need to do is to set up your repository and FTP account.

They currently the following version control systems:

Git, Subversion, Mercurial.

With repository hosted

• GitHub
• Bitbucket
• GitLab
• Codebase

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Comments

[d11wtq]

Well, git can be leverage pretty well for this purpose in reality. Check out the tag and create post-checkout, post-merge etc hooks to handle any installation procedures needed. We used to use RPM packages but after moving to git it was simply overkill.

[dodgy_coder]

The only problem with this is when you don't have access to the production server, i.e. it might be simple shared hosting, with only FTP access.

[gang]

using git-ftp, is there a way to push just a subdirectory (e.g. the publish folder of html5 boilerplate) to the specified ftp directory?

[Shmygol]

And what if there are several developers in the team. Is it still possible to use this scripts?

[Pranav 웃]

@Trilliput : A little late here, but yes, an intermediate server/vm on the network as the place where everyone pushes, and then : github.com/ezyang/git-ftp#using-a-bare-repository-as-a-proxy

[quickshiftin]

This script is rather clumsy about selecting 'last updated files'. Check out this fork for a more elegant solution.

[Simon East]

github.com/banago/PHPloy‎ also does a similar thing but works with submodules, which I suspect some of the mentioned tools might struggle with.

[indianwebdevil]

The main problem with git-ftp (not sure script or python) I tried it was very bad when uploading large chunks of files and long list of files.

[borisdiakur]

In addition to that you may want to transmit only tracked and uncommited files. Here’s a tiny script which does just that: gist.github.com/borisdiakur/37b8f512f6f8865b79c7

[Dave Thompson]

I posted this answer prematurely. FTPloy is not quite 'production ready' and there are a lot of bugs. I couldn't get it to work. I am using DeployHQ which works very well.

[Geri Borbás]

@Julix For the article mentioned.