: Deploying GIT repository via FTPS to a shared hosting I would like to start using GIT for version controling. Here are my prerequisites: I'm on Windows Most of the time I would need to work

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I would like to start using GIT for version controling. Here are my prerequisites:

I'm on Windows
Most of the time I would need to work on Wordpress templates
I have to deploy on multiple shared hosting services - no SSH access
Some of the hosting services offer GIT hosting, but the connection is only via HTTP (WebDav)

I think the solution might be:

Clone github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton to a local main repo to have always updated WP installation.
Turn on Wordpress multi-site to be able to develop more plugins on one WP installation.
Develop Wordpress themes locally as GIT submodules - should I then add paths to the WP themes to main repo's .gitignore to not to track changes twice (main repo+submodule)?
Commit changes to BitBucket account to have all of the repos at one place
When deploying:

on hosting with GIT: add remote GIT repository (on the hosting), push to the repository via WebDav from the local repo and deploy
on hosting without GIT: use something like - git-ftp: anantgarg.com/2013/09/25/git-ftp-for-windows/ to copy the changed files from local GIT to remote hosting via FTP - but I wasn't able to find if it is possible to upload via FTPS

What are the disadvantages to this? Is there a better (free!) solution?

BTW: is it safe (secure connection) to connect to a remote repository like: username:password@myhosting.tld ? Won't anyone be able to see the username and password?