Sync a local Git work tree with a remote one

git-rsync

#!/bin/sh
#
# Author: Matthieu Prat <matthieuprat@gmail.com>
# Date: 01/22/2015
#
# Sync a local work tree with a remote one.
# It's rsync on steroids within large Git repositories.

USAGE='<repository>'
LONG_USAGE='Sync a local work tree with a remote one.'
SUBDIRECTORY_OK=No
OPTIONS_SPEC=

. "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup"
require_work_tree
cd_to_toplevel

[ $# -eq 0 ] || [ $# -gt 1 ] && {
    usage
}

head=$(git rev-parse HEAD)

remote=$(git ls-remote --get-url $1) # e.g. git.example.org:path/to/repository
remote_host=${remote%:*}             #      git.example.org
remote_repo=${remote##*:}            #      path/to/repository

remote_exec () {
    ssh -T -A $remote_host "cd $remote_repo && $*"
}

{
    # Push the local HEAD to the remote (if need be).
    if ! remote_exec git rev-parse --verify --quiet $head^{commit}
    then
        git push --quiet --force $remote $head:refs/heads/rsync/HEAD &&
        remote_exec rm '$(git rev-parse --git-dir)'/refs/heads/rsync/HEAD
    fi || die "Failed to push local HEAD to the remote." &&

    # Checkout the local HEAD on the remote end and clean untracked files.
    remote_exec "
        git checkout --quiet -f $head &&
        git clean -df
    " || die "Unable to checkout local HEAD on the remote." &&

    # Apply local changes (if any) to the remote work tree.
    if ! git diff-index --quiet --ignore-submodules HEAD
    then
        git diff-index --unified=0 --binary --ignore-submodules $head |
            remote_exec git apply --unidiff-zero --whitespace=nowarn -
    fi || die "Could not apply local changes on the remote." &&

    # Fallback to rsync for untracked files.
    git ls-files --others --exclude-standard -z |
        rsync --files-from=- -0 --no-dirs --whole-file . dev:dailymotion \
    || die "Failed to push untracked files."

} > /dev/null && echo "Success."

Thanks for this! You still have dev:dailymotion hardcoded as the remote in the rsync step. Replacing it with $remote fixes it.