Introducing Git to your FTP workflow covers some basic Git concepts and then shows couple of schemes to use git for publishing web content. Not much words, so I will try to write some blog post to complement it.

1. Introducing
to your ftp workflow

2. Introducing myself
Roman Rus
@RomSocial
using WordPress since 2008

3. git init
git add .
git commit –m “First commit”
git commit -am “First update“
git clone https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git
git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
git push origin
git pull origin

7. + History
+ Undo
+ Sharing Code
+ Backup
– Collaboration
– Not great sync
– FTP is still used
cd /your/code/dir/
git init
git commit -am "First commit"

10. + History
+ Undo
+ Collaboration
+ Test / Stage / Prod
– Installation of python plugin
– Setting it up is a bit complicated
– What if someone changes web files
– FTP credentials in git config files
https://github.com/ezyang/git-ftp
git clone --bare https://github.com/name/repo.git

12. + History
+ Undo
+ Collaboration
– What if someone changes web files
git clone --bare https://github.com/name/repo.git
# post-receive
deploy_to_dir = File.expand_path('../work')
`GIT_WORK_TREE="#{deploy_to_dir}" git checkout -f master`
http://krisjordan.com/essays/setting-up-push-to-deploy-with-git

14. + History
+ Undo
+ Collaboration
+ Test / Stage / Prod
+ Remote Tracker
git init git add . git commit –m “initial”
git remote add https://bitbucker.com/user/repo.git
git clone --bare https://bitbucker.com/user/repo.git remote.git
git --git-dir tracker.git remote add remote.git
# post-receive
exec git --git-dir /path/to/tracker.git pull

15. References
• https://github.com/mislav/git-deploy
• http://krisjordan.com/essays/setting-up-push-
to-deploy-with-git
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tu
torials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-
with-git-with-a-vps