Specify App root within git directory

[Pedro Rodriguez]

For Capistrano 3, how do I tell it where my app is inside a git repo, if it is not at the root. Suppose I have something like

• root of git repo
• app-folder
• this is the root of rails app, capfile, gemfile, etc
• misc resources
• other stuffs

How can I tell it can find my rails app in app-folder, instead of the root?

[Lee Hambley]

For Capistrano 3, how do I tell it where my app is inside a git repo, if it is not at the root. Suppose I have something like

​You can't. You may have some success with looking at modifying the Git checkout code to perform a sparse checkout. (but it's not supported in most SCMs, and thus we can't widely support it)

[slowjack2k]

It's only a guess, but I think it can work. As far as I can see the git strategy can be replaced via

set :git_strategy, MyMod 

in you'r stage, deploy or cap file.

Now the interesting part is this in the strategy

def release

      git :archive, fetch(:branch), '| tar -x -f - -C', release_path

end

in  Capistrano::Git::DefaultStrategy

a new Module can change this behavior


module MyMod 
  include Capistrano::Git::DefaultStrategy

  def release

      git :archive, fetch(:branch), '| tar -x -f -',' --strip', fetch(:levels_to_skip) ,' -C', release_path, fetch(:subfolder)

   end

end

I didn't test it, but tar should support extraction of only one special folder (fetch(:subfolder)).
--strip or --strip-components=, throws n levels of the directory structure away