# git checkout and remote rsync **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 6, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-checkout-and-remote-rsync/15873 "2014-08-06T17:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quentin\_Stafford-Fra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b2d939/32.png) [@Quentin\_Stafford-Fra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Quentin_Stafford-Fra)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-checkout-and-remote-rsync/15873/1 "2014-08-06T17:27:16Z")
Hi there - A common deployment model I’m using is to checkout a git repo on the target machine and then copy the subdirectory(s) I actually want into position (e.g. under /var/www somewhere) using a remote rsync command. There may be a better way to do this, but here’s how I run rsync so that it shows up correctly in the ‘changed’ statistics, just in case it’s useful for others. - name: copy repo to live directory command: rsync -rlpEtv -i --delete –out-format=‘[changed] %f’ {{repo\_root}}/my\_key\_subdirectory/ {{app\_root\_dir}}/ register: rsync\_result changed\_when: “'[changed] ’ in rsync\_result.stdout” rsync tends to output various statistics even if nothing needs to be copied, so I tell it to use an easily-recognisable output format, where it will print: [changed] filename1 etc in the output for any files affected. Then I just look for instances of ‘[changed]’ in stdout. Suggestions for more elegant ways to get a subset of a git archive efficiently are most welcome! Quentin ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-checkout-and-remote-rsync/15873/2 "2014-08-07T21:17:42Z")
I’m not entirely following this, but have you read the docs for the synchronize module yet? This wraps rsync and makes it easier than composing the rsync CLI command.