sorry for the wrong formatting... can't change it :/

ok while thinking again it might be good to change the
cache/localgitclone to something like .localclones/$deployment->getName()/
as you may use one Surf Instance to deploy different Installations/git repositories, which currently fails as once you change the git url it tries to update one git repository with a sha1 of another repository which obviously won't work.

For example TYPO3v4/v6 deployment may be using such an approach
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-deployment/wiki

Re: 1) checkout locally

did you try using "localhost" as hostname? If the host is "localhost", no remote/ssh commands will be executed, but everything is done locally instead. (see TYPO3\Surf\Domain\Service\ShellCommandService)

hey Tobi,

if you take a look at my last comment you can see that I add an "option" for the Base Application. It's called "transferMethod" and it currently supports git and rsync. For that to work I change the git checkout task to accept an option "localcheckout" which will checkout the code into an local cache dir and then you can use whatever method you want to transfer it to the server.

Here is an example deploy script using the "transferMethod" option.

<?php
    $workflow = new \TYPO3\Surf\Domain\Model\SimpleWorkflow();
    $deployment->setWorkflow($workflow);

    $node = new \TYPO3\Surf\Domain\Model\Node('<domain>');
    $node->setHostname('<domain>');
    $node->setOption('username', '<username>');
    $node->setOption('password', '<password>');
    $node->setOption('port', '<port>');

    $application = new \TYPO3\Surf\Application\TYPO3v6();
    $application->setDeploymentPath('/path/to/your/public_html');
    $application->setOption('repositoryUrl', '<repositoryUrl>');
    $application->setOption('transferMethod', 'rsync'); //defaults to 'git', supports: [git, rsync]
    $application->setOption('keepReleases', 2);
    $application->addNode($node);

    $deployment->addApplication($application);
?>

I had a look at the github fork and substracted the rsync command out of it in a separate package so we can discuss it during the code sprint we have this week.

https://github.com/radmiraal/Radmiraal.SurfJobs

cool :)
If you have any more questions just let me know... I now use if for about 10 month with multiple TYPO3 Installations and different Servers (most without git support). We have done probably a few hundred live and dev deployments during this time... so for us it's a real time saver as you just configure it once and everyone on the team can use it.