How to Setup Git-Push on WP Engine

This guide assumes you are setting up a new site on your local environment, and uses Valet by default (but can be adapted for any local development setup).

Setting up Git-Push Access with WP Engine

Open up your terminal.
Run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy in your terminal. This will copy your ssh key to your clipboard.
Visit http://my.wpengine.com, select the install you're working on, then select "Git push" from the left-hand menu.
Paste your ssh key into the textfield and enter your name. (Once you enter your SSH key and set your name, that name will be the same for every install).

Setting up your local environment

In terminal, navigate to where you'd like to host your site on your computer
Clone the umbrella repo using the --recursive flag, like so: git clone --recursive https:/INN/umbrella-innlabs

This will clone your site and setup Staging as the default push location (for safety).
The --recursive flag will also download any submodules present in the repo.

Run git remote add staging [email protected]:staging/install.git, where install is the name of your WP Engine site.

This will allow you to push changes to the staging site.

Run git remote add production [email protected]:production/install.git, where install is the name of your WP Engine site.

This will allow you to push changes to the production site.

Run yo wordpress to build a copy of WordPress around this, filling in the details as you normally would.

Using Git-Push

When you've made changes you want to push to staging or production, simply commit them and push them (as you would normally).

To push the contents of the master branch to staging, use git push staging master.
To push the contenst of the master branch to production, use git push production master.