Re: How to work in a group with Git and remote server? (Ex. Keep files in sync while FTP'ing)

@andrew: It's a very topical question as Git was a big topic at
CakeFest this year. If you ever have designs on contributing to
CakePHP and the many apps and plugins that are being developed around
it then Git is certainly the way to go as that's what the core team
use.

You need to setup a central machine on your network as a remote repo
where you your group can individually clone/pull/branch and then push
updates back into the one central 'master'. Just yesterday I
installed git-ftp which then allows you to ftp from the git bash only
those files that have changed rather than uploading the whole app
again or manually trying to work out which files were changed since
the last upload.

Related links:
http://gitref.org/
https://github.com/resmo/git-ftp

@Ryan: It's always a personal thing, but I think most people at
CakeFest who were previously using SVN went away from the conference
wanting to swtich to Git.

HTH, Paul
@phpMagpie

On Sep 8, 1:36 am, Ryan Schmidt <google-2...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 13:42, andrewperk wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering how to keep my cake files in sync while working in a
> > group with others. I understand how to use git and I've been using it
> > solo for versioning my applications. Then I just use Filezilla to FTP
> > my files into my remote server.
>
> > This will be difficult to do in a group though as I'll have to
> > download the whole framework from the server each time before making
> > new changes to  ensure that I have the most recent changed files from
> > my partners.
>
> > How can I make it so we can all work remotely in different places on
> > the same project and only have to upload/download to/from the server
> > the most recently changed files.
>
> This isn't a Cake question; it's a question about how to use git with a web-based project. I don't use git, I use Subversion, and they have a FAQ for this situation:
>
> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#website-auto-update
>
> Perhaps the git people have a common way this should be handled as well. You should ask them.

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