It is strange to me that I have not found anything related to this situation, which in turn seems very usual...:
I have finished a web project for one of my clients, and they have provided me with access to one of their remote production machines in order to deploy the code. There, I have done git clone and I have successfully deployed it. Now, I want to remove all the git trail because when I execute, e.g., git status, it returns the same output as in my local development environment. In others words, I would like to leave the code there, but not any git files, configurations, or tracking information about my repo.
What is the professional way of doing a production deployment using git, but leaving only the code? Thanks in advance.
You can copy the clone then remove the .git directory.
Better way to do it is use git archive then extract it to your production area.
git archive <TAG> --output=production.tar
You can also specify a zip format. *--format is option. It tried to guess the format from the file name. See git archive --help
git archive <TAG> --format=zip --output=production.zip