From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:03:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie experience with push over ssh
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702141253520.1757@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <45D34B17.70602@webdrake.net>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Joseph Wakeling wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > What would be the point if you don't have GIT on the remote system?
> > 
> > Just use rsync or scp to copy your code over and be happy.
> 
> For one thing, I might be making small changes or have unversioned files
> in my local directory that I don't want to copy.  I only want to push
> across the latest code in the branch.

Try this then:

  git archive --format=tar <branch_name> | ssh <remote_machine> tar -xf -

You can also use the --prefix= argument to git-archive in order to 
specify a subdirectory on the remote machine.


Nicolas