Git fails to push to ftp-server

Question

I've got some problem using git over ftp.

What I've got right now:

• FTP Server, ready for active and passive FTP;
• Bare git repository, one commit

The repository was created locally and then sent to the server. I had to use git update-server-info to make it work. Now I can clone into my new repository and execute pulls, but I cannot push. Everytime I try, git says:

error: Cannot access URL ftp://f***@w*****/repo/, return code 3 fatal: git-http-push failed

Can anyone please help me?

Greets Florian

Answer 1

Note: if your goal is to copy (deploy) files that have changed in your local repo to a ftp server then:

• git-ftp (python script)
• git-ftp (shell script)
• git-deploy (ruby script)
• PHPloy (php script)
• Webdrive

might be better suited for this task.

As far as I know (as confirmed in this thread), there is no support yet for git push to ftp.

Answer 2

@VonC: Seems you're right, I talked so some GIT guys on IRC and they told me the same. FTP pull works, FTP push doesn't. But anyway, your confirmation thread is a possible solution to my problem, as I can use webdrive/netdrive (and curlftpfs on linux) to make git think the remote repository is a local folder. This is the only solution I see at the moment.

Thank you!