How to use git locally and push to remote server

Question

I want to use git to manage my development, integration test and production environments. I\'ve looked around but can\'t seem to find a simple explanation of how (eg Git -

Answer 1

Git is not (originally) meant for synchronizing working copies but repositories that is Git's commits/branches/refs/etc.

What your want to do I would call a remote checkout. There is hundreds of other ways to do. I have two ideas: As you have setup an ssh-connection the big work is done:

1) use git and ssh

git push origin my_branch
ssh user@server "(cd remote-dir-where-your-repo-is; git checkout -f my_branch;)"

2) Use rsync

rsync -av . ssh://user@server/dir --exclude=.git