: Develop website locally and push updates on Remote Server using Git Together with a friend we are looking to develop a website (using Symfony2). We are on a Shared Hosting with SSH access.

@Ann8826881

As stated by @Jacob Hume I'd have an intermediary repository, setup your own, use Github or Bitbucket. You are likely going to run into difficulty synchronizing your branches between multiple developers if you don't use a hub. I usually pull updates into a staging/testing server to make sure everything is working, then do the same for production.

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@Angie530

I personally use Git for web development, and have adopted a method similar to this with our development server. I used Joe Maller's Web-Focused Git Workflow as a model, and it's been fairly successful.

Joe's approach uses an intermediary "hub" repository that's been set up as a "bare" repository (git --bare init), because it's very tricky pushing into a working repository. Git seems much more happy when you pull from other repositories, which is why you'll hear a lot about "pull requests" in community projects.

From there, the dev server (or in your case, your shared hosting) is updated using post-commit and post-update hooks that pull the changes in from the hub repository. This allows your team to push changes upstream into the hub, and automatically update your shared hosting account from the same repository.

You might have to modify it a bit to match your environment, but I think it would accomplish everything you're looking for.

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