New feature. Copy application from remote source; e.g.: GIT repo.

Mage/Config.php

@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ class Mage_Config
         return $taskConfig;
     }
 
+    public function setFrom($from)
+    {
+        $options['deployment']['from'] = $from;
+        return $this;
+    }
+    
     public function deployment($option, $default = false)
     {
         $options = $this->getEnvironment();

Mage/Console.php

@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ class Mage_Console
         self::log('---- Executing: $ ' . $command);
         
         ob_start();
-        system($command . ' 2>&1', $return);
+        $return = 1;
-        $log = ob_get_clean();
+        $log = array();
+        exec($command . ' 2>&1', $log, $return);
+        $log = implode(PHP_EOL, $log);
         
         if (!$return) {
             $output = trim($log);            

Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Releases.php

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 class Mage_Task_BuiltIn_Deployment_Releases
     extends Mage_Task_TaskAbstract
+    implements Mage_Task_Releases_BuiltIn
 {
     public function getName()
     {

Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Deployment/Rsync.php

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 class Mage_Task_BuiltIn_Deployment_Rsync
     extends Mage_Task_TaskAbstract
+    implements Mage_Task_Releases_BuiltIn
 {
     public function getName()
     {

Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Scm/Clone.php

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?php
+class Mage_Task_BuiltIn_Scm_Clone
+    extends Mage_Task_TaskAbstract
+{
+    private $_name = 'SCM Clone [built-in]';
+    private $_source = null;
+    
+    public function getName()
+    {
+        return $this->_name;
+    }
+    
+    public function init()
+    {
+        $this->_source = $this->_config->deployment('source');
+        switch ($this->_source['type']) {
+            case 'git':
+                $this->_name = 'SCM Clone (GIT) [built-in]';
+                break;
+
+            case 'svn':
+                $this->_name = 'SCM Clone (Subversion) [built-in]';
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+    
+    public function run()
+    {
+        $this->_runLocalCommand('mkdir -p ' . $this->_source['temporal']);
+        switch ($this->_source['type']) {
+            case 'git':
+                $command = 'cd ' . $this->_source['temporal']
+                         . ' && '
+                         . 'git clone ' . $this->_source['repository'] . ' . '
+                         . ' && '
+                         . 'git checkout ' . $this->_source['from'];
+                $this->_config->setFrom($this->_source['temporal']);
+                break;
+
+            case 'svn':
+                return false;
+                break;
+        }
+
+        $result = $this->_runLocalCommand($command);
+        
+        return $result;
+    }
+}

Mage/Task/BuiltIn/Scm/RemoveClone.php

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?php
+class Mage_Task_BuiltIn_Scm_RemoveClone
+    extends Mage_Task_TaskAbstract
+{
+    private $_name = 'SCM Remove Clone [built-in]';
+    private $_source = null;
+    
+    public function getName()
+    {
+        return $this->_name;
+    }
+
+    public function init() 
+    {
+        $this->_source = $this->_config->deployment('source');
+    }
+    
+    public function run()
+    {
+        return $this->_runLocalCommand('rm -rf ' . $this->_source['temporal']);
+    }
+}

Mage/Task/Deploy.php

@@ -72,12 +72,24 @@ class Mage_Task_Deploy
 
         // Run Post-Deployment Tasks
         $this->_runNonDeploymentTasks('post-deploy', $config, 'Post-Deployment');
+        
     }
 
     private function _runNonDeploymentTasks($stage, Mage_Config $config, $title)
     {
         $tasksToRun = $config->getTasks($stage);
         
+        // Look for Remote Source
+        if ($this->_config->deployment('from', false) == false) {
+            if (is_array($this->_config->deployment('source', null))) {
+                if ($stage == 'pre-deploy') {
+                    array_unshift($tasksToRun, 'scm/clone');                    
+                } elseif ($stage == 'post-deploy') {
+                    array_unshift($tasksToRun, 'scm/remove-clone');
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         if (count($tasksToRun) == 0) {
             Mage_Console::output('<dark_gray>No </dark_gray><light_cyan>' . $title . '</light_cyan> <dark_gray>tasks defined.</dark_gray>', 1, 3);
             

Mage/Task/Factory.php

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ class Mage_Task_Factory
     public static function get($taskName, Mage_Config $taskConfig, $inRollback = false)
     {
         $instance = null;
+        $taskName = ucwords(str_replace('-', ' ', $taskName));
+        $taskName = str_replace(' ', '', $taskName);
                 
         if (strpos($taskName, '/') === false) {
             Mage_Autoload::loadUserTask($taskName);

docs/example-config/.mage/config/environment/production.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 #production
 deployment:
   user: root
-  from: ./
+#  from: ./
+  source:
+    type: git
+    repository: git://github.com/andres-montanez/Zend-Framework-Twig-example-app.git
+    from: production
+    temporal: /tmp/myAppClone
   to: /var/www/vhosts/example.com/www
   excludes:
     - application/data/cache/twig/*
@@ -12,8 +17,6 @@ releases:
 hosts:
   - s01.example.com
   - s02.example.com
-  - s03.example.com
-  - s05.example.com
 tasks:
   pre-deploy:
     - scm/update