GitLab runner, how to deploy changes to deploy.php ?

[nbennett25]

I have a server set up with a GitLab runner, connected to a repository containing the deployer/deployer package, and a super basic recipe.

When code is pushed to the repository, it kicks off a GitLab pipeline and deploys the code to the server as localhost rather than a remote; but how do I tell the vendor/bin/dep deploy command to use an updated version of deploy.php?

for example:

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  tags:
    - deployer-testing
  script:
    - cd /var/www/html/current && vendor/bin/dep deploy -vvv
  environment: development

When deployer runs, it goes to the doc root and runs vendor/bin/dep deploy - works as expected, but it's using whatever version of deploy.php is in the current release, not the one in the new code.

Is there a work around to pull the deploy.php before running the vendor/bin/dep command...?

(Maybe I'm going about this all wrong..?)

[acharseth]

One way you could solve this is to create a stand alone deploy script and update this independently of the application you want to deploy.