Ideal to transfer a built static directory (like a angular-js single page app) and have in the remote machine, the typical releases directory. Specially, handy if you have lots of bower_components, and/or your build process take some time, and you don't want to let the remote machine take charge of it.

On each deploy, it will not re-copy all of it again (and thus saving time and bandwidth), but it will use rsync to transfers modifications. However, it takes care of not loosing previous releases on the remote machine. Therefore, you can rollback immediately!

In your local machine, the directory to deploy is ./dist.

It uses git only for knowing in which revision you are I suggest your local development is git versioned. Open an issue if you wish to get independent of git, and we may chat about how to achieve it.

In yours gems file of your capify project, add

    gem 'capistrano-deploy-rsync'

And then execute

    bundle install

Make sure, you set

    set :git_strategy, Capistrano::Git::RsyncStrategy

In its current way it helps me, however, small tweaks are need it to make it more comfortable and adaptable.

Feel free to do some pull requesta or open an issue.