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From: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: recipe to use git for deployment
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:08:00 -0500
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On 5/5/2012 7:14 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Neal Kreitzinger
> <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, git-archive was not intended for deployment, but it does
>> pretty good at it.
> Except it doesn't delete files that should be deleted (the way 'git
> checkout' does or rsync would if you gave it --delete).
>
Oh, yeah.  Thats why I move everything to a backup directory before 
untarring it.  That also satisfies our pre-git practice of saving off 
the old version before replacing it so we have a quick recovery point if 
the new version turns out to be worse than the old one!

v/r,
neal