Doing Git / Bitbucket Deployment for most of my project these days. This is another compact solution, that should allow almost anyone to start using Git to distribute updates automatically.
Always nice to be able to go a step back fast ;)
His website is offline, but you can still reach it through the Web Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20131209120053/http://wpcopilot.net/git-auto-deployment/