Capistrano deploy fails after I changed the repository URL

Question

I have a simple deployment via capistrano from a Git repository. At first I was deploying form GitHub, everything worked just fine. But then I moved my repository to BitBucket a

Answer 1

I solved this with the following in deploy.rb:

namespace :deploy do
  task :cope_with_git_repo_relocation do
    run "if [ -d #{shared_path}/cached-copy ]; then cd #{shared_path}/cached-copy && git remote set-url origin #{repository}; else true; fi"
  end
end
before "deploy:update_code", "deploy:cope_with_git_repo_relocation"

It makes deploys a little slower, so it's worth removing once you're comfortable that all your deploy targets have caught up.

Answer 2

For Capistrano 3.0+

1. Change the repository URL in your config/deploy.rb

2. Change the repository URL in the your_project/repo/config file on the server.

Answer 3

If you need to do a lot of repo's you might want to add a task for it.

For capistrano 3 you add this task in your deploy.rb

desc "remove remote git cache repository"
  task :remove_git_cache_repo do
      on roles(:all) do
    execute "cd #{fetch(:deploy_to)} && rm -Rf repo"
  end
end

And then run it once for every stage:

cap testing remove_git_cache_repo

Answer 4

I gotta say I’m not sure, since I haven’t been able to test this but this should work:

cap deploy:cleanup -s keep_releases=0

Since it wipes every release (cache) from the server.

Apparently you will also need to remove shared/cached-copy, because this doesn’t seem to be cleaned by the Capistrano call above according to the comment below.