Nifty project. But I have hard time believing that there still are web providers that don't support SSH. Are there any? Good ones?
Free hosting sites generally don't provide SSH access. I'm using 000webhost.com currently, which doesn't.
Git over FTP
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#12Why GPLv3? git itself is GPLv2.
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#13Nifty project. But I have hard time believing that there still are web providers that don't support SSH. Are there any? Good ones?
Rackspace cloud sites - though we use SSHFS for git.
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#14Ha, nice. Was just thinking of writing something like this for my g/f who is learning HTML/CSS but keeps breaking stuff editing live sites over FTP.
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#15This 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…
The only useful infrastructure that my university will give me is a login account on an ancient (locked down) solaris box, and an ftp account. I could make ftp:// links shareable to colleagues and point them to tortoisegit as a useful client for accessing and editing said stuff using their existing login credentials (via judicious use of chmod) and this would solve a significant problem.
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#16Does it work over SFTP? I might be able to use something like that.
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#17Does it work over SFTP? I might be able to use something like that.
Apparently it does - https://github.com/resmo/git-ftp/blob/develop/git-ftp#L123
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#18An interesting way of implementing this may be to flip the responsibility of 'translation'.
Here the git client includes logic to speak (translate to) ftp - which is great for this purpose.
What if you could say: `git push fleet master`
where fleet is a remote that translates git-speak into a deployment.
I realize - this is simply an imitation of Heroku. But, it may be interesting to flex git in this way: a code change protocol.
This and the recently discussed codeq could yield some very interesting possibilities.
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#19With your advanced ftp technology you are blinding me with your retro chic. I need git over smoke signals. Nothing else is 19th century enough.
Seriously, other than it was a fun fidget, what was the point?
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#20Does it work over SFTP? I might be able to use something like that.
If you have SFTP, that implies you have SSH. Why not just use Git over SSH?