From: Christian Himpel <chressie@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:13:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Getting a list of last commit's files and piping them..
Message-ID: <20090928141312.GA4564@mrslave>
In-Reply-To: <4f302eef91c72cd4583e0aa4707ab4c0@ahmednuaman.com>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:02:52PM +0100, Ahmed Nuaman, Freelance Designer and Developer wrote:
> I use git for a local versioning system and was wondering if there was a
> way that I could write a bash script that would get the paths of the files
> from the latest commit and then pipe them to ftp or ssh for deployment.

For example, to scp a complete file list from branch `topic' to
`user@server', you could use `rsync' and do something like:

git checkout topic &&
git ls-tree -r --name-only |
rsync -a -e ssh --files-from=- user@server:/path/to/dest

Note, that this is completely untested.  Use at your own risk.


Regards,
chressie