Git to upload updated files to the site

I don’t know what you use to upload changed files to the site, but I used to do everything manually. The tedious and stupid work is over, and at some point laziness, as the engine of progress, took its toll. Fortunately, by this time I began to deal with rails, and with them and with other charms of adequate development of web applications, including VCS. At some point, it dawned on me - after all, Git ( Project Site , Wikipedia ) already has everything to track changes, why not start using it for filling. All you need is SSH and an intermediate repository on the same server, inaccessible to the web server. Actually, like:

Remotely

Create a remote repository:

mkdir -p git/project.git
cd git/project.git/
git init --bare

Locally

Create a local repository:

cd /home/me/project
git init

We enter the files that do not need to be synchronized, for the rail on the makoshi I enter the following in .gitignore:

.DS_Store
log/*.log
tmp/**/*
config/database.yml

Now you can make the first commit and send everything where it should:

git commit -a -m 'Initial commmit'
git remote add production ssh://me@my.server.ru/home/me/git/project.git
git push production master

Remotely

It remains to clone the repository

git clone /home/me/git/project.git

In the future, when updating locally, you need to commit and git push, remotely - git pull