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

If you have ssh connection to the server, you can add a git remote directly to the repository on the server. Something like:

git add remote production sshUser@example.com:/path/to/repo/.git

Then, to deploy,

git push production branch

That said, you probably shouldn't have your production code served from a git repository. Much better is to set up a repository outside your web root and use a post-receive hook to copy the code to the web root. This appears to be outlined here: Deploy a project using Git push

Answer 2

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