Deploying a folder via rsync over ssh. This is for deployments from OSX to Linux servers.

rsync-deploy.sh

#!/bin/bash

# You might have to install a new version of rsync for this to work.
# This is easily done by `brew install rsync` and restarting your terminal.

# To use a file as an exclude-list you can use the option
# --exclude-from='donot-deploy.txt' 

# Change these to match your settings
USER_NAME='username'
HOST_NAME='hostname'
LOCAL_PATH='app/'
REMOTE_PATH='public_html/'

# The --iconv is for avoiding problems with case insensitive OSX-file systems
# The first parameter-list is in order: recursive, preserve links, preserve timestamps, compress, skip newer files, verbose
rsync \
    -rltzuv --progress --iconv=UTF8-MAC,UTF-8 --delete \
    --exclude='.DS_Store' \
    --exclude='.git/' \
    -e ssh $LOCAL_PATH $USER_NAME@$HOST_NAME:$REMOTE_PATH