Git over FTP

This is extremely interesting. I think the main people to benefit from this would be self-deployment kind of people or freelance developers. Mostly freelance devs I believe.

For my stuff, I'd definitely use this - but my first order of business would be to talk people into getting proper hosting so I wouldn't have to. Obviously that's not possible for freelance gigs. I'll definitely use it when I need to deploy to X host. Normally though I do quite a decent job of remembering which files I need to upload, but now I don't have to!!

Excellent stuff though! Thanks for creating this!

Re: Git over FTP

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Post by rgbrgb » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 4:58 AM UTC

I'm kind of interested in whether he's making any money from that flatr pitch.

Re: Git over FTP

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Post by doesnt_know » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 5:05 AM UTC

zoowar wrote: post #2

What a stupid project!

I don't see how it is stupid.

He encountered a problem: "Most of the low-cost web hosting companies do not provide SSH or git support, but only FTP." He then solved that problem and decided to make the work available to others.

Re: Git over FTP

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Post by vinaykola » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

Just to make it clear, I wasn't the one who made this. It's just a project I found useful. You'll have to thank this guy https://github.com/resmo.

Re: Git over FTP

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Post by rcavezza » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 5:17 AM UTC

I had this problem with FTP/PHP projects. I now use and highly recommend deployhq.

Re: Git over FTP

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Post by aes » Sat, Oct 13, 2012, 5:24 AM UTC

Nifty project.

But I have hard time believing that there still are web providers that don't support SSH. Are there any? Good ones?