#git-ftp

I am trying to sftp to my server using git-ftp on my mac. Everytime i try, i keep getting : Protocol sftp not supported or disabled in lib curl curl: (1) Protocol sftp not supported or disabled in lib curl I have spent around 4 hours googling and tinkering with installing libssh and libssh2, curl with sftp. They are all installed yet i still keep getting this error. I appreciate this isn't strictly speaking a git-ftp issue, but i am hoping other git-ftp users may have encountered and fixed this. I hav...

in case you have issue with libcurl, please install curl with ssh.

one developer suggest using sudo port install curl +sftp_scp, but i'm more to brew, so quick brew install curl --with-ssh would do the job.

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In some projects I work on the deployment is done by uploading files to a FTP server. This the typical approach in a "standard" shared hosting environment.

I don't like it.

It has happened more than once that a collaborator that isn't aware of (or doesn't care) simply overwrites your changes. Also, I am a CLI kind of guy and would like to be able to upload code straight from the console.

For these reasons I have researched ways to integrate git to handle deployments in a better, more efficient way. What I've found? git-ftp - it's pretty sweet!

Here is how to do it:

# 1. Install $ git clone http://github.com/resmo/git-ftp.git $ cd git-ftp $ git checkout master $ sudo make install # 2. Init and configure git-ftp for existing git project $ cd my_project $ git config git-ftp.user joel $ git config git-ftp.url ftp://ftp.afartinspace.com/public_html $ git config git-ftp.password qwerty $ git ftp init # 3. Use $ git commit -am 'a commit' $ git ftp push

All in all I think this is pretty darn good! But git-ftp is missing out on an important feature: pull/fetch. What happens if that designer guy uploads a bunch of new images using a regular FTP client? As now these files cannot be merged into your git project in a simple way. Ideally it would be nice to be able to do something like: git ftp pull to download changes.

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