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We're recommending that core not be part of the deployment, since that could conflict with normal versioning of WordPress. It covers files and database. Check git.wpengine.com for the super in-depth coverage.

If you want to keep your content in version control, checkout this project - https://github.com/scottgonzalez/grunt-wordpress .

That would be some tricky git work. I'm fairly sure some sort of separate database configuration would still be needed (such as modifying the wp-config file). Jump down to step 7 here (http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hosting/wordpress-developme...).

Yeah, I keep my blog posts in text files via git, and just push up to my server using XMLRPC.

https://github.com/brool/wordpress-shuffle