How to Install git-ftp on Windows

I use git-ftp to deploy my hexo blog from a git repo to an FTP site. Getting it setup on Windows was non-trivial. Here’s how I got it working.

1. Install Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/install

2. Install git

choco install git

3. Install cygwin

choco install cygwin

Run this twice if it fails the first time. Here’s how it failed for me.

ERROR: Running ["C:\Users\jong\AppData\Local\Temp\Cygwin\2.6.1\setup-x86_64.exe" --quiet-mode --site http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ --packages default --root C:\tools\cygwin --local-package-dir C:\tools\cygwin --no-desktop ] was not successful. Exit code was '1'. See log for possible error messages.
Environment Vars (like PATH) have changed. Close/reopen your shell to
 see the changes (or in powershell/cmd.exe just type `refreshenv`).
The install of cygwin was NOT successful.
Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Cygwin\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1'.
 See log for details.

Chocolatey installed 1/2 packages. 1 packages failed.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Failures
 - cygwin (exited 1) - Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Cygwin\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1'.
 See log for details.

If you get this error: “Please ensure you have Cygwin installed” then follow the steps here

If you can’t get cygwin to install, then just install it directly from the cygwin website here: https://cygwin.com/install.html

4. Install cyg-get

choco install cyg-get

5. Install cyg-get curl package

cyg-get curl

6. Open Cygwin Terminal

7. Get git-ftp

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git-ftp/git-ftp/develop/git-ftp > /bin/git-ftp

8. Make git-ftp Executable

chmod +x /bin/git-ftp

9. Run git-ftp

git ftp

You will see the following output.

10. Add cygwin to Windows PATH Environment Variable

So you can execute cygwin command from a Windows Command Prompt, open up Environment variables and add this to your path.

C:\tools\cygwin\bin

11. Open a Windows Command Prompt and run git ftp

git ftp

Once again, you will see the output, but this time from Windows instead of the cygwin Terminal.

See the git-ftp GitHub repo for usage instructions.

Jon