Deploy when github goes down

November 27, 2008

As git is distributed, the repository on your local machine is good enough to deploy from.

First start a git server on your local machine.

  git daemon --base-path=/projects/rails_apps/ --export-all

Then change your capistrano recipe to deploy with the copy command and change the repo to point to your local machine.

  set :deploy_via, :copy
  set :repository 'git://127.0.0.1/proj_name'

Where in this example the code resides at /projects/rails_apps/proj_name

Now capistrano will deploy from your local repository, thus avoiding the currently melted github

There are other options which have been listed by chris wanstrath in the following article