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For some deployments such as staging, demo development it is often useful to migrate files and database from another site e.g. production instead of keeping the existing one.

It would be very useful if a deployment could specify another deployment as source either as configuration or as an option when running the deploy task.

When deploying from a make file where the profile is the last specified project git_project fails with an error message, ["Unable to inject revision information [...] no insert-point found"(https://skitch.com/kasperg/eantg/dev-aegir.reload.dk).

The problem seems to go away when additional projects are added to the make-file.

When deleting projects from hostmaster nothing seems to be done to cascade the delete to the git-project tables. Git Project should delete the corrosponding rows in hosting_git_project and hosting_context.

Also, what should be done about deployments when a project is deleted?

Generated platform names are currently based on project name, deployment name and timestamp.

It would be nice if information like branch, tag or revision could be added and the timestamp replaced with something more readable e.g. YYYYMMDD-HHMM.

The description for the name field states:

'Choose a unique descriptive name for your platform. You very likely want this to be something like "Drupal 6.20".'

Based on the purpose of the project Drupal 6.20 seems like an inappropriate name for a platform?

It is not uncommon that a developer would want to clone a deployment, eg. to crate a snapshot of the environemnt to be used for a demo.

If a "project" site is cloned currently, everything looks good in hostmaster, but the entire drush alias on the provision side seems to copied, including the git_project_deployment attribute.

The result is two sites that both referes to a deployment, breaking the invariant that a deployment may only be referenced by at most one site.

The current naming Git Project and Git Project deployment is a bit misleading. In fact the project appears to have no dependency to git despite the fact that it is one method which can be used to retrieve projects.

Additionally "Project deployment" is also confusing as it isn't an actual deployment but rather something (environments) which can be updated using deployments

Name ideas:

Git Project => ACDC: Aegir Continuous Deployment Cycle 🎸
Git Project Deployment = ACDC environment/plan

It can be quite tricky to find an existing deployment.

How about a tab listing them - just like sites and platforms?

We are trying to change the Makefile URL of a Git Project, but it won't save. 👎 🐛