git-ftp.py: quick and efficient publishing of Git repositories over FTP
Introduction
Some web hosts only give you FTP access to the hosting space, but you would still like to use Git to version the contents of your directory. You could upload a full tarball of your website every time you update but that's wasteful. git-ftp.py only uploads the files that changed.
Requirements: git-python 0.3.x
it can be installed with easy_install gitpython
We also have a PPA
which you can install with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:niklas-fiekas/ppa
and then sudo aptitude install git-ftp.
Usage: python git-ftp.py
Note: If you run git-ftp.py for the first time on an existing project
you should upload to the hosting server a git-rev.txt file containing
SHA1 of the last commit which is already present there. Otherwise git-ftp.py
will upload and overwite the whole project which is not necessary.
Storing the FTP credentials
You can place FTP credentials in .git/ftpdata, as such:
[master]
username=me
password=s00perP4zzw0rd
hostname=ftp.hostname.com
remotepath=/htdocs
ssl=yes
[staging]
username=me
password=s00perP4zzw0rd
hostname=ftp.hostname.com
remotepath=/htdocs/staging
ssl=no
Each section corresponds to a git branch. FTP SSL support needs Python 2.7 or later.
Exluding certain files from uploading
Similarly to .gitignore you can specify files which you do not wish to upload.
The default file with ignore patterns is .gitftpignore in project root directory,
however you can specify your own for every branch in .git/ftpdata:
[branch]
... credentials ...
gitftpignore=.my_gitftpignore
Used syntax is same as .gitignore's with the exception of overriding patterns,
eg. **!**some/pattern, which is not supported
Negations within patterns works as expected.
Using a bare repository as a proxy
An additional script post-receive is provided to allow a central bare repository
to act as a proxy between the git users and the ftp server.
Pushing on branches that don't have an entry in the ftpdata configuration file
will have the default git behavior (git-ftp.py doesn't get called).
One advantage is that users do not get to know the ftp credentials (perfect for interns).
This is how the workflow looks like:
User1 --+ +--> FTP_staging
\ /
User2 -----> Git bare repository -----> FTP_master
/ \
User3 --+ +--> FTP_dev
This is how the setup looks like (One ftpdata configuration file, and a symlink to the update hook):
root@server:/path-to-repo/repo.git# ls
HEAD ORIG_HEAD branches config description ftpdata hooks info objects packed-refs refs
root@server:/path-to-repo/repo.git# ls hooks -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29 Aug 19 17:17 post-receive -> /path-to-git-ftp/post-receive
License
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