Using FTP programs to add every change in your repository is not only annoying but also time-very consuming. Fortunately, there's way to automate this flow with Gitlab Pipelines.
Place the .gitlab-ci.yml in your Gitlab project's repository and configure the Pipeline. Customize the script as you wish to create a powerful automated deployment to wherever your like!
It allows you to build, test and deploy committed code without less of the manual effort.
Mirror specified remote directory to local directory
-c, --continue continue a mirror job if possible
-e, --delete delete files not present at remote site
--delete-first delete old files before transferring new ones
-s, --allow-suid set suid/sgid bits according to remote site
--allow-chown try to set owner and group on files
--ignore-time ignore time when deciding whether to download
-n, --only-newer download only newer files (-c won't work)
-r, --no-recursion don't go to subdirectories
-p, --no-perms don't set file permissions
--no-umask don't apply umask to file modes
-R, --reverse reverse mirror (put files)
-L, --dereference download symbolic links as files
-N, --newer-than=SPEC download only files newer than specified time
-P, --parallel[=N] download N files in parallel
-i RX, --include RX include matching files
-x RX, --exclude RX exclude matching files
RX is extended regular expression
-v, --verbose[=N] verbose operation
--log=FILE write lftp commands being executed to FILE
--script=FILE write lftp commands to FILE, but don't execute them
--just-print, --dry-run same as --script=-
When using -R, the first directory is local and the second is remote. If the second directory is omitted, basename of first directory is used. If both directories are omitted, current local and remote directories are used.