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README of git-ftp

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Summary

Git powered FTP client written as shell script.

About

I use git-ftp for my script based projects, mostly PHP. Most of the low-cost web hosting companies do not provide SSH or git support, but only FTP.

That is why I needed an easy way to deploy my git tracked projects. Instead of transfering the whole project, I thought, why not only transfer the files that changed since the last time, git can tell me those files.

Even if you are playing with different branches, git-ftp knows which files are different. No ordinary FTP client can do that.

Known Issues

Limitations

git-ftp depends on curl.

Due the limitation of curl, for each upload a new ftp connection is going to be initialsed. Some web hosting companies have rate limited FTP which can break git-ftp uploads.

It is planed to move from curl to lftp to use a single connection for all uploads.

Installing

See INSTALL file.

Usage

$ cd my_git_tracked_project
$ git ftp push --user <user> --passwd <password> ftp://host.example.com/public_html

For interactive password prompt use:

$ git ftp push -u <user> -p - ftp://host.example.com/public_html

Pushing for the first time:

$ git ftp init -u <user> -p - ftp://host.example.com/public_html

Using Defaults

Setting defaults for a git project in .git/config

$ git config git-ftp.user john
$ git config git-ftp.url ftp.example.com
$ git config git-ftp.password secr3t

After setting defaults, push to john@ftp.example.com is as simple as

$ git ftp push

Using Scopes

For using defaults for different systems, use the so called scope feature.

$ git config git-ftp.<scope>.<(url|user|password)> <value>

Here I set the params for the scope foobar

$ git config git-ftp.foobar.url ftp.testing.com:8080/foobar-path
$ git config git-ftp.foobar.password simp3l

Set scope params using action add-scope

$ git ftp add-scope foobar ftp://username:simp3l@ftp.testing.com:8080/foobar-path

You can also remove a previously set scope using remove-scope

$ git ftp remove-scope foobar

Push to scope foobar alias john@ftp.testing.com:8080/foobar-path using password simp3l

$ git ftp push -s foobar

Because I didn't set the user for this scope, it takes the user john as set before in defaults.

Ignoring Files to be synced

Add file names to .git-ftp-ignore to be ignored.

Ignoring all in directory config:

config/.*

Ignoring all files having extension .txt in ./ :

.*\.txt

This ignores a.txt and b.txt but not dir/c.txt

Ingnoring a single file called foobar.txt:

foobar\.txt

Testing and Help Manual

For testing mode use --dry-run alias -D

$ git ftp push -u <user> -p --dry-run ftp://host.example.com/public_html

For more options and features see man page or help:

$ git ftp help

Unit Tested

Core functionality is unit tested on Linux using shunit2. You can find the tests in tests/.

Contributions

Don't hesitate to use GitHub to improve this tool. Don't forget to add yourself to the AUTHORS file.

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