on :push check if file exists on remote server and skip if it does

[goblain]

on my setup, when there was an example file, the processing always overwritten the destination file with example content. Adding the check for remote file ensures that the file is created only on hosts that do not have it alredy (hence it will not squash local chenched alredy made on that file)

[rjocoleman]

thanks @goblain and sorry for the delay on this!

However as mentioned in #5 this is by design.

If this feature was controlled by configuration and disabled by default I'd merge it in.

[soullivaneuh]

Maybe can we propose this as on option or a config element?

$ cap stagind config:push --skip-existent # Will skip upload if file already exists

[rjocoleman]

Does Capistrano now support command line arguments like this? I've been out of capistrano for several months, but last I saw it wasn't supported

[soullivaneuh]

@rjocoleman My bad of course not! Was used to bash commands...

Don't think capistrano support option, just arguments I think.

So, config file could be a good solution I think.

[rjocoleman]

It's here: https://github.com/rjocoleman/capistrano-upload-config/blob/master/lib/capistrano/tasks/upload-config.rake#L71-L78

that should contain something like:

set :config_overwrite_existing, true

Then users can change the behaviour by using set :config_overwrite_existing, false in their deploy.rb

And the code in this PR needs to be refactored to:

• if true overwrite
• if false check to see file exists before overwriting

I'm happy to take a PR for this.

[soullivaneuh]

@goblain are you OK to update your PR according this?