"If you've disabled FTP for security reason updating becomes a manual process." The automatic update process will also work if the webserver has write permissi

"If you've disabled FTP for security reason updating becomes a manual process." The automatic update process will also work if the webserver has write permissions on the files (which is a bad idea in the first place). But if it doesn't and you can't/won't give it FTP credentials for a user that does, you do need to go through a somewhat manual process. Personally, I use vendor branching (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html) in both SVN and Git in cases like this. I don't have to rely on the developers to generate a patch: I get all of the changes pulled directly from my local repository.