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Subject: Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code.
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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

Martin> I find the discussion of git-archive as a deployment tool a bit
Martin> worrying - remember that untarring a newer version of the tarball on
Martin> top of the old version does not remove old files.

"rsync --exclude [dangerous things} --delete --delete-excluded" is your friend.

They added --delete--excluded at my request, by the way.

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