Capistrano cached copy takes a long time to copy during a deploy

If you’re using Capistrano to deploy your Rails projects it’s common knowledge to use a cached copy to prevent downloading your entire project from git or svn with every deploy.

What I didn’t know was that by default Capistrano copies over the .git directory when deploying. This was causing a 90 second delay in our deploys. Outrageous!

Fortunately the fix is simple, just cram this into your deploy.rb file.

set :copy_exclude, [ '.git' ]

Author: Daniel X

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