I am developing a WordPress theme which is under version control using Git and in a local development area ( WAMP ). I push commits to Bitbucket using smartgit as a GUI. I have 2 branches, master and development. I want to deploy the development branch to a staging area (a WordPress install on my live server).
I have tried using ftploy which does achieve this; however it doesn't seem to allow me to choose which branch to deploy and I want to reserve deployment of the master branch for the actual final deployment. I am using shared hosting but I have SSH access.
How can I best achieve deployment of the development branch to the shared hosting? Git is not installed on the server (and can't be).
There is an article that suggest 7 apps for Git auto-deploy: