Question: what's the purpose of the clone?

[murtaugh]

Two questions, I guess:

1. Why clone the repo before copying it over? (this probably reveals my ignorance of dealing with files)
2. Does the clone action copy over all files, or just changed ones? (this reveals my ignorance of git...)

[markomarkovic]

There are no files on the server machine to copy before the cloning action. Clone makes the initial copy of the REMOTE_REPOSITORY in the TMP_DIR. If the TMP_DIR already exists, only the changes are fetched and not the entire repo.

[murtaugh]

Thanks!

[eliataylor]

why not git pull instead?

that would avoid the problems like #81 and pull in new branches.