I use sshfs (my hosting don't permits Shell Acess) to mount my "sftp" server on my filesystem and it works welll (a litle bit slow, but works). sshfs -o workaround=rename user@host:/home/user/ ~/web/hosting/ With this command I can just do: cd ~/web/hosting/my_project/ git clone ~/projects/my_project git-checkout -b production #performs some server specific modifications git-checkout master git-merge production #work offline iin my project on ~/projects/my_project/ cd ~/web/hosting/my_project/ git pull # and my project is up-to-date fusermount -u ~/web/hosting/ # to unmount from Brazil Felipe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html