laravel4cookbook

Deployment 105
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It’s important that you copy the distribution files to a target outside of your source folder. The
copy command copies ./ which means a target inside will lead to an “infinite copy loop” where the
command tries to copy the distribution folder into itself an infinite number of times.
To get around this; I guess you could target sources files individually (or in folders). It’s likely that
you will be running the copy command from a local machine, so there’s little harm in copying the
distribution files into a directory outside of the one your application files are in.
Removing Development Files
Next up, we need a command to remove any temporary/development files. We’ll start by creating a
config file in which these files are listed:
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