I've watched the videos and read the docs, but I'm still a little confused about this feature. How does it know what files to push? Does it diff the base vagrant image? If my application has package dependencies, does it push those too? What about if I need to restart a service as part of the push?
Good question. It does a few heuristics depending on the strategy in use. But it has some VCS detection in it so if you're using Git it'll only upload files in the Git index (staged/committed/not ignored). There are also glob-based include/exclude filters you can specify. If all else fails, then yes, it uploads everything.
> it has some VCS detection in it so if you're using Git it'll only upload files in the Git index (staged/committed/not ignored)
So... if I have some docs in markdown, and a server-config to serve static assets -- it'll upload the config and the markdown, but not the generated html/css/js? The idea is that the server knows what to do with the git repo?
Or am I just being difficult now? (I honestly can't really tell -- I also have a hard time seeing how to make use of this. Not that it matters - if it works for you, then great ;)
To build on what mitchellh said, you can also specify paths outside of the current working directory to include in the push with the `include` flag. It can be specified multiple times in the DSL as well.
