rsync instead of scp? about capistrano HOT 2 CLOSED

@mattbrictson Thanks for the info, that would definitely explain why I couldn't find the scp invocation 😄

Sounds like the easiest solution is to keep enabling scp for deployments and disabling it after--we have only one application left on Capistrano and it's going away pretty soon.

Thanks for your time, response, and support of this gem over the years!

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Good question, thanks for raising it!

Capistrano delegates all of its network operations to the sshkit gem. If I look there I see definitions for upload! and download! that seem pretty hardcoded to scp. I don't see an obvious way to swap in a different strategy.

I think that :copy_strategy might have been leftover from the pre-Capistrano 3.x days, before it was rebuilt on top of sshkit. We actually emit a warning if someone tries to set :copy_strategy, to clarify to people migrating configurations from old Capistrano versions that it is no longer supported.

I guess you might need to fork sshkit and replace the definitions of upload! and download! with an alternative that uses rsync.

Alternatively, for small text files, you could substitute scp with a shell script run over ssh, like:

execute "echo -n #{text_to_upload.shellescape} > /path/to/destination"

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