Purpose
To publish changes to a static website from a local Windows-10 PC to a remote webserver using FTP.
In the past I have used various tools (CuteFTP, FileZilla). Currently I just drag and drop using two Windows-Explorer windows (one opening an ftp://user@server/dir/ target). This requires me to manually select the files changed since the last update.
In the distant past I used DreamWeaver, which would automatically select files that had changed.
I can't use SSH, SCP, Rsync etc as the shared server is managed by a hosting service which only offers FTP uploads. In some cases I have no say over choice of hosting provider.
Objective Requirements
Essential
- Command line tool.
- FTP client.
- Able to publish multiple files and subdirectories in one command.
- Works out which files need publishing
- Binaries for Windows-10
Everything beyond here is icing on the cake and nonessential.
Preferable
- Open source, Free.
- Options for previewing list of files to be published.
- Options for asking for file by file Y/N confirmation
- Some way of specifying folders or file patterns to include or exclude
Desirable to prevent temporary glitching in service
- uploads all CSS, JPG, PDF before any HTML/SHTML
- uploads using a prefix or suffix and renames when upload complete.
ftpsync windows:)