You'd loose the constant-time rollback of swapping the symlink back.

-Rob
On Jan 5, 2012 11:01 PM, "Wes Gamble" <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Tim,
>
> I think it's probably just historical - git wasn't in widespread use at
> the time capistrano was initially developed (as "switchtower").
>
> This is an interesting idea, and would save quite a bit on filesystem
> space.
>
> Wes
>
>
> On 1/5/12 8:13 PM, tim wrote:
>
> Hey guys.
>
> Just out of curiosity...
>
> I was wondering why capistrano keeps past checkouts instead of using
> the version control mechanism itself.
>
> In other words why not a "git reset --hard revno" or something
> similar?
>
> Cheers.
>
>
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