Using Git to manage your project

Your Divio Cloud project is a Git repository.

This has many advantages:

fine-grained revision control
excellent collaboration opportunities
easy export and replication

The Divio App application uses Git behind the scenes to push and pull changes when you Upload and Download your project code.

Using Git manually

You can also use Git manually from the command-line while working to the same effect. Just treat the project as a standard Git repository, and push and pull as you would normally.

Push your changes to the Cloud

If you have made some local changes and want to push (i.e. upload) them to the Cloud, the basics steps you need are:

git status to see the changed files
git add <file1> <file2> (etc) to stage the changes (alternatively, you can do git add . to stage everything)
git status to make sure everything has been staged
git commit -m "Updated templates" to commit the changes
git push origin develop to push your local changes to the origin (i.e. our server)

Pull changes from the Cloud

git pull

Excluded directories

Note that a number of directories are excluded (using .gitgignore) from the project:

.env - the project's virtualenv, for software installed using pip
data - temporary file storage.
static_collected - processed static files
node_modules- for frontend frameworks
.env-local