NAME

       Git-ftp - Git powered FTP client written as shell script.

SYNOPSIS

       git-ftp [actions] [options] [url]...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the git-ftp program.

       Git-ftp  is a FTP client using Git to determine which local files to upload or which files
       should be deleted on the remote host.

       It saves the deployed state by uploading the SHA1 hash in the .git-ftp.log file.  There is
       no need for Git (http://git-scm.org) to be installed on the remote host.

       Even if you play with different branches, git-ftp knows which files are different and only
       handles those files.  No ordinary FTP client can do this and it saves time and bandwidth.

       Another advantage is Git-ftp only handles files which are tracked  with  Git  (http://git-
       scm.org).

ACTIONS

       init   Initializes the first upload to remote host.

       push   Uploads files which have changed since last upload.

       catchup
              Uploads  the  .git-ftp.log file only.  We have already uploaded the files to remote
              host with a different program and want to  remember  its  state  by  uploading  the
              .git-ftp.log file.

       show   Downloads last uploaded SHA1 from log and hooks `git show`.

       log    Downloads last uploaded SHA1 from log and hooks `git log`.

       add-scope <scope>
              Creates  a  new  scope (e.g.  dev, production, testing, foobar).  This is a wrapper
              action over git-config.  See SCOPES section for more information.

       remove-scope <scope>
              Remove a scope.

       help   Prints a usage help.

OPTIONS

       -u [username], --user [username]
              FTP login name.  If no argument is given, local user will be taken.

       -p [password], --passwd [password]
              FTP password.  If no argument is given, a password prompt will be shown.

       -k [[user]@[account]], --keychain [[user]@[account]]
              FTP password from KeyChain (Mac OS X only).

       -a, --all
              Uploads all files of current Git checkout.

       -A, --active
              Uses FTP active mode.

       -s [scope], --scope [scope]
              Using a scope (e.g.  dev, production, testing, foobar).   See  SCOPE  and  DEFAULTS
              section for more information.

       -l, --lock
              Enable remote locking.

       -D, --dry-run
              Does  not  upload  or  delete anything, but tries to get the .git-ftp.log file from
              remote host.

       -f, --force
              Does not ask any questions, it just does.

       -n, --silent
              Be silent.

       -h, --help
              Prints some usage information.

       -v, --verbose
              Be verbose.

       -vv    Be as verbose as possible.  Useful for debug information.

       --remote-root
              Specifies remote root directory

       --syncroot
              Specifies a local directory to sync from as if it were the git project root path.

       --key  SSH Private key file name.

       --pubkey
              SSH Public key file name.  Used with --key option.

       --insecure
              Don't verify server's certificate.

       --cacert <file>
              Use as  CA  certificate  store.   Useful  when  a  server  has  got  a  self-signed
              certificate.

       --disable-epsv
              Tell  curl to disable the use of the EPSV command when doing passive FTP transfers.
              Curl will normally always first attempt to use EPSV  before  PASV,  but  with  this
              option, it will not try using EPSV.

       --version
              Prints version.

URL

       The scheme of an URL is what you would expect

              protocol://host.domain.tld:port/path

       Below  a  full featured URL to host.example.com on port 2121 to path mypath using protocol
       ftp:

              ftp://host.example.com:2121/mypath

       But, there is not just FTP.  Supported protocols are:

       ftp://...
              FTP (default if no protocol is set)

       sftp://...
              SFTP

       ftps://...
              FTPS

       ftpes://...
              FTP over explicit SSL (FTPES) protocol

DEFAULTS

       Don't repeat yourself.  Setting defaults for git-ftp in .git/config

              $ git config git-ftp.<(url|user|password|syncroot|cacert)> <value>

       Everyone likes examples:

              $ git config git-ftp.user john
              $ git config git-ftp.url ftp.example.com
              $ git config git-ftp.password secr3t
              $ git config git-ftp.syncroot path/dir
              $ git config git-ftp.cacert caCertStore
              $ git config git-ftp.deployedsha1file mySHA1File
              $ git config git-ftp.insecure 1
              $ git config git-ftp.key ~/.ssh/id_rsa

       After setting those defaults, push to john@ftp.example.com is as simple as

              $ git ftp push

SCOPES

       Need different defaults per each system or environment?  Use the so called scope feature.

       Useful if you use multi environment  development.   Like  a  development,  testing  and  a
       production environment.

              $ git config git-ftp.<scope>.<(url|user|password|syncroot|cacert)> <value>

       So in the case below you would set a testing scope and a production scope.

       Here we set the params for the scope "testing"

              $ git config git-ftp.testing.url ftp.testing.com:8080/foobar-path
              $ git config git-ftp.testing.password simp3l

       Here we set the params for the scope "production"

              $ git config git-ftp.production.user manager
              $ git config git-ftp.production.url live.example.com
              $ git config git-ftp.production.password n0tThatSimp3l

       Pushing to scope testing alias john@ftp.testing.com:8080/foobar-path using password simp3l

              $ git ftp push -s testing

       Note: The SCOPE feature can be mixed with the DEFAULTS feature.  Because we didn't set the
       user for this scope, git-ftp uses john as user as set before in DEFAULTS.

       Pushing to scope production alias manager@live.example.com using password n0tThatSimp3l

              $ git ftp push -s production

       Hint: If your scope name is identical with your branch  name.   You  can  skip  the  scope
       argument, e.g.  if your current branch is "production":

              $ git ftp push -s

       You can also create scopes using the add-scope action.  All settings can be defined in the
       URL.  Here we create the production scope using add-scope

              $ git ftp add-scope production ftp://manager:n0tThatSimp3l@live.example.com/foobar-path

       Deleting scopes is easy using the remove-scope action.

              $ git ftp remove-scope production

IGNORING FILES TO BE SYNCED

       Add file names to .git-ftp-ignore to be ignored.

       Ignoring all in Directory config:

              config/.*

       Ignoring all files having extension .txt in ./ :

              .*\.txt

       This ignores a.txt and b.txt but not dir/c.txt

       Ignoring a single file called foobar.txt:

              foobar\.txt

SYNCING UNTRACKED FILES

       To upload an untracked file when a paired tracked file changes (e.g.  uploading a compiled
       CSS file when its source SCSS or LESS file changes), add a file pair to .git-ftp-include:

              css/style.css:scss/style.scss

       If  you  have  multiple  source files being combined into a single untracked file, you can
       pair the untracked file with multiple tracked files,  one  per  line.   This  ensures  the
       combined  untracked  file  is  properly  uploaded  when any of the component tracked files
       change:

              css/style.css:scss/style.scss
              css/style.css:scss/mixins.scss

NETRC

       In the backend, Git-ftp uses curl.  This means ~/.netrc could be  used  beside  the  other
       options of Git-ftp to authenticate.

              $ editor ~/.netrc
              machine ftp.example.com
              login john
              password SECRET

EXIT CODES

       There are a bunch of different error codes and their corresponding error messages that may
       appear during bad conditions.  At the time of this writing, the exit codes are:

       1      Unknown error

       2      Wrong Usage

       3      Missing arguments

       4      Error while uploading

       5      Error while downloading

       6      Unknown protocol

       7      Remote locked

       8      Not a Git project

KNOWN ISSUES & BUGS

       The upstream BTS can be found at <https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp/issues>.

AUTHORS

       Rene Moser <mail@renemoser.net>.