From: Drew Northup Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:39:17 GMT Subject: Re: git repository in production release Message-ID: <1287664757.24161.17.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> In-Reply-To: On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 12:13 +0000, Jonas wrote: > Hi, > > I am afraid this is a rather stupid question, but I have spent quite some time > to figure it out without any success. > > I use git in my Ruby on Rails applications. On my deployment server > there is a git directory that I push to in the admin users directory. > When I run cap deploy Capistrano makes a new release and makes a new > directory under releases from the repository, I guess this is standard. > > My releases are getting bigger and bigger, it takes longer and > longer time for the cap deploy command to > finish and the backups contain a huge number of files. > > What puzzels me is that in every release there is a .git directory. > As far as I can see it makes no use there, > just takes up much space. Is it supposed to be like this or have I made a mess? > > How can I get rid of the .git directory in the deployment releases? Why is this a git problem and not a Capistrano problem? -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59