Preprocessing files before upload to FTP

Question

I'm using phpStorm to develop and I want to process some files before it's uploaded to the FTP server.

For example, I want to strip all comments on PHP files or even compress/obfuscate it, or minify css and js.

I know that there are some plugins to minify css and js, but I don't want to do this over my local files, I just want to upload it processed, but leave untouched my files.

I'm currently using Git, so when I commit a change, all affected files are automatically uploaded to the FTP server. It could be great to commit the changes, process the files and upload the result to the FTP server.

Answer 1

It could be great to commit the changes, process the files and upload the result to the FTP server.

That would mean, in a post-commit hook :

• update a separate repo
• change your files in that separate repo
• sftp the separate repo content

In other words, you would upload a processed working tree from another local repo, and not from your current local repo (where you don't want to change your files).