Re: Newbie experience with push over ssh

[Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net>]

Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net> wrote:
>> I remember coming across the same issue as Matthieu and never got round
>> to solving it.  In my case the desire is to upload the code onto a
>> remote machine---in particular a cluster where I run simulations.  I
>> don't particularly need that remote code to be in a repo or otherwise,
>> since it's only there to be run, not edited.
> 
> git archive --format=tar HEAD | ssh remote 'cd /some/where;tar xvf -'
> 
> You could put this in a shell script which takes the remote hostname,
> path and optionally the revision to send..

Aaahhh, that looks quite an elegant solution.  Thank you very much!