How to use git locally and push to remote server

Question

I want to use git to manage my development, integration test and production environments. I\'ve looked around but can\'t seem to find a simple explanation of how (eg Git -

Answer 1

If you have ssh connection to the server, you can add a git remote directly to the repository on the server. Something like:

git add remote production sshUser@example.com:/path/to/repo/.git

Then, to deploy,

git push production branch

That said, you probably shouldn't have your production code served from a git repository. Much better is to set up a repository outside your web root and use a post-receive hook to copy the code to the web root. This appears to be outlined here: Deploy a project using Git push