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Deploy from git sounds like a nice touch.

Deploy from git sounds like a simple "git pull" being run by cron every minute. Am I missing something?

Git supports hooks, so you could write a script to push a branch out to a server whenever a commit is made. That would be more sensible than running 'git pull' in a cron job.

From their features page (http://cloud.webspecies.co.uk/features):

"Pulling code from a repository

You can configure a Git repository we are going to pull code from every minute or so. Once we find new commits they are going to be automatically deployed to the cloud."

... so it sounds like they did not take the sensible route either ;)

Sounds more like a "cap deploy" to me.

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