I am maintaining and developing a drupal website and have a testing/development version of the site in a subfolder of drupal instalation. I started to learn git and I am wondering about how could I use it in my development process. I came up with following solution:

Make a git repository for live site and clone it in the test subfolder (which will be added into live site's .gitignore file). Make some development in the test directory, test it and when I'm satisfied, switch to the live site repository, fetch and merge the changes.

Since I am a newbie to git, I'd like to know if this approach can be succesfully used, or if not, which aspects should I change/or come up with completely different solution.

I am maintaining and developing a Drupal website and have a testing/development version of the site in a subfolder of drupal instalation. I started to learn git and I am wondering about how could I use it in my development process. I came up with following solution:

Make a git repository for live site and clone it in the test subfolder (which will be added into live site's .gitignore file). Make some development in the test directory, test it and when I'm satisfied, switch to the live site repository, fetch and merge the changes.

Since I am a newbie to git, I'd like to know if this approach can be succesfully used, or if not, which aspects should I change/or come up with completely different solution.