Question

I have a live branch that needs to be pulled (git pull) on the live server, but the live server cant acess bitbucket.

While I have ssh access on the remote server using login/pass (cant use ssh-key), what is the best way to syncronize the specified branch on the remote server (updating and deleting changed files)?

Answer 1

I solved this problem using rsync.

With rsync I can check witch files were modified and are different on the remote server.

I also created a file named build.exclude.sync witch contains every dir I want to skip, and at terminal I can use:

rsync -avz --exclude-from=build.exclude.sync /home/path/to/local/dir/ -e ssh [e-mail]:/path/to/remote/dir/

I used rsync with Apache Ant to automate the build proccess. At my build.xml file:

<exec executable="rsync" dir="." failonerror="true">
         <arg line="-avz --exclude-from=build.exclude.sync ${prod.local.deploydir} -e ssh  ${prod.sshusername}@${prod.sshhost}:${prod.homedir}"/>
</exec>