Deploy features into standalone application

[stephan-strate]

My goal is to set up deployer to automatically deploy our Grav websites.
After studying the documentation and some tutorials, there are still some questions in my head. Especially how to deploy features into a standalone application. What does this mean? We have got a cms like Typo3 or in this case Grav, which is already "installed" (lives in the public dir) on the webserver. The folder structure looks something like this:

/assets
/backup
/bin
/cache
/images
/logs
/system
/tmp
/vendor
/user
index.php
+ some additional files like .htaccess

Our git repositories have the same structure, but without the application itself of course. That means our git repositories look something like this:

/user
.htaccess
+ some additional files

How would this be deployed using deployer? I can not use tasks like update_code, because this would need to be executed in an empty directory. You might not support Grav, but Typo3 raises the same question for me.

[antonmedv]

Just depends on what you would like to do. For example clone app and then rsync your file. Common recipe is using symlinks for public dir.