[cvsnt] CVS and FTP (excluding directories)

[keith d. zimmerman]

douglass_davis at earthlink.net wrote:
> I use CVS to keep track of my PHP source for a website.   CVS puts a 
> "CVS" directory in each dir of the site.
> I don't want to transfer those.  Can any one recommend a good FTP 
> client that can transfer files and exclude certain directories from 
> being tranferred based on their name?
>
> Free is better :)   but, i would be willing to buy a good FTP client.
>
FTP is unencrypted, password and all, allowing your website to possibly 
be taken over.  If I were you, I'd use rsync, which works over an ssh 
connection and provides an option to ignore cvs files.

-kz