Question

I use git and I want to update the remote server’s files via ftp. How I’ll accomplish this? Is there any ftp command or addon for that?

Answer 1

Even if Git does not support FTP, several tools exist for this :

• git-ftp (shell script)

I use git-ftp for my script based projects, mostly PHP. Most of the
low-cost web hoster does not provide SSH nor git support, only FTP.

That is why I needed a easy way to deploy my git tracked projects.
Instead to transfer always the whole project, I thought, why not only
transfer the files which 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.

• git-ftp (python script)

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.

Those scripts only transfer files that have changed since the last time, which is better than nothing.