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.
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
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.
As I mentioned in this answer , PHPloy is a great tool for sending your git changes to remote servers over FTP (you don't have to install anything on the server, which is great if you're on a shared web host). It works from the command line and is written in cross-platform PHP (and even detects changes in submodules).
https://github.com/banago/PHPloy
From your local development machine, you just type...
git commit ...
phploy -s stagingServer
phploy -s productionServer
Done!
(Disclaimer: after using it for a while I've now contributed some code patches and improvements, making it Windows-compatible.)
Whether using OSX, you can consider this GUI-based pretty convenient workflow (I also use for some WordPress stuff): http://eppz.eu/blog/push-git-to-ftp/
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