I use git to deploy about 30 sites and have found it to be a really useful workflow. It's particularly useful over SSH when using key-based authentication. For

I use git to deploy about 30 sites and have found it to be a really useful workflow. It's particularly useful over SSH when using key-based authentication. For my post-receive hook, I always add a tag to mark a deployment: git tag deployment-`date +'%Y%m%d%H%M%S'` You can see all past deployments with a git log: git log prod/master --oneline --decorate On all my developer machines, I have them add a `git-deploy` script to their $PATH, which looks a little something like: #!/bin/bash git push $1 +HEAD:master git fetch $1 You can just run `git deploy prod` (assuming your deployment repository is named 'prod'). The extra `git fetch` will pull down the auto-generated tags so you can see them locally w/a simple `git tag` Edit: Forgot to mention, that since git ships w/a bash shell for Windows, most of this should work for Windows-based dev setups as well.