From: Sitaram Chamarty Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 12:14:16 GMT Subject: Re: recipe to use git for deployment Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4FA4BAF3.10601@gmail.com> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Neal Kreitzinger 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). On a lark I once wrote a very efficient way of dealing with this; see attached. It's probably won't work on anything but Linux and requires bash, and it's only been minimally tested and I do not actually use it, but someone might like it.