Git for collaborative web development

Hi, I'm going to work on a web project with a friend. We will host our code on a server and my idea was to set up a git repository (maybe using gitosis) so that we could work on our machines and push the changes to the server.

He said that it would be complicated, because if he's going to try some changes to show me on the fly he just can't. I mean, he would like to work on the code directly on the server, so that he can change the code, save and I can just refresh the page from my browser and see what he did.

Using git he should save, commit, add, push... so it's a bit longer.

Is there a nice compromise? Or a better way to use git for such a task or web development in general?

Thanks for your help, bye.