Capistrano deploy fails after I changed the repository URL

Solution 1:

Capistrano 2.X

Delete and re-clone the repo using the new address:

cd $deploy_to/shared
rm -rf cached-copy
git clone ssh://[email protected]/new/repo.git cached-copy

Modify your config/deploy.rb to use the new repo:

set :repository, "ssh://[email protected]/new/repo.git"
set :scm, :git
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache

Deploy again:

cap deploy

Capistrano 3.X

1. Remove the $deploy_to/repo directory
2. Modify your config/deploy.rb (same as 2.X)
3. cap deploy

Solution 2:

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.

Solution 3:

Capistrano 2 and below

SSH to your server and update the repo in ./shared/cached-copy/.git/config of the deployment folder, or just remove the ./shared/cached-copy

Capistrano 3 and above

SSH to your server and update the repo in ./repo/config of the deployment folder.

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