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		russell_h on Feb 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using git to manage a website Not necessarily. If you run an ssh-agent locally and configure ForwardAgent to 'yes' for connections to your web server you can ssh to your server and use ssh from it without actually putting your private key on it. I'd still recommend pushing to a server though.

mcmatterson on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

An excellent discussion about this exact topic came through HN yesterday. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2183415, and in particular the comments.

alexgandy on Feb 7, 2011 | [–]

Thanks for pointing this out.

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