If you upload files frequently to your web server, you’ll know how much of a pain it can be to upload only the files needed. I had resorted to another method of zipping everything on my computer, upload to the server, then extract from there replacing all my files. But as a lazy guy, this was simply unacceptable! And guess what? I found the perfect solution.
git-ftp (GitHub repo)
So, i install git-ftp on my Kubuntu.
You need to have an ftp account created on your web server.
Initially you need to push using this command
git ftp init -u <user> -p - ftp://host.example.com/public_htmlEverytime your mates or yourself commit/push to your remote git repository, you run these 2 lines and the changes get reflected on your live server in less than 2 mins. 😀
git pull origin mastergit ftp push --user <user> --passwd <password> ftp://host.example.com/public_htmlIt uploads only files that has been changed. It’s almost like magic. LOL 😛
You can even create a shell script for these 2 lines if you’re like lazy to the extreme. But i just press the up button in my terminal and the codes are already here. 😉
Hello. The git method is a nice one but you could still use rsync to just synchronize incremental changes. You don’t need to upload whole stuffs if you haven’t changed them all.
Didn’t know about rsync. But seems like it’s too complicated for me. git ftp is doing the job more than perfectly for me 🙂