Error: '...repo' does not exist

[acharseth]

I am new to Deployer.

I have the following (anonymized) deploy.yaml:

import: 
  - recipe/laravel.php

config:
  repository: ''

hosts:
  foo.no:
    remote_user: bar
    deploy_path: '~/www/testdeploy/test'

tasks:
  build:
    - cd: '{{release_path}}'
    - run: 'whoami'

after:
  deploy:failed: deploy:unlock

When running dep deployI get the following (anonymized) error message:

task deploy:lock
task deploy:release
task deploy:update_code
[foo.no]  error  in update_code.php on line 88:
[foo.no] run export GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT='0' GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new'; [ -f ~/www/testdeploy/test/.dep/repo/HEAD ] || /usr/bin/git clone --mirror  ~/www/testdeploy/test/.dep/repo 2>&1
[foo.no] fatal: repository '/home/2/l/foo/www/testdeploy/test/.dep/repo' does not exist
[foo.no] exit code 128 (Invalid exit argument)
task deploy:failed
task deploy:unloc

I develop locally on my laptop, using git, but no remote repository (not using GitHub or other git-severs).
The folder .../.dep/repodoes exist.
I get the same error message if I run the same (/usr/bin/git clone --mirror ~/www/testdeploy/test/.dep/repo 2>&1) command on the server inside the .../.dep/repo folder.

What am I doing wrong?

[acharseth]

Use rsync.php add on to Deployer.
Override deploy:update_code:

task('deploy:update_code', function () {
    // Override original update_code
    // Do NOTHING (to skip git task)
});

deploy:writeable is also unneeded in my environment so override this as well.
Customise .env-handling (because it is specific to each environment).
Customise file rights (only folder public, index.php and .htaccess need to be readable by others and no files need to be writeable by others).
It would be nice if these two customisations where options in Deployer so you do not need to customise them yourself!