Capistrano deploy hangs at check_changes step

Question

It hangs on the check_changes step at this command:

Command: cd /home/myproject/repo && git diff --name-only HEAD

With this output in terminal:

DEBUG [c3f0a05b]        content/plugins/akismet/views/notice.php[m
DEBUG [c3f0a05b]        :[K

A couple notes which may make this case unusual:

• This is deploying a WordPress site.
• WordPress core and plugins were (mistakenly) updated on the server using wp-cli so that production code and repository would be unsynced.

Answer 1

Solution turned out to be simple. But it required a lot of useless googling before I finally figured it out by trial-and-error. Posting this as a reference for others who may find themselves in this situation.

The fix was to ssh into the server and remove the repo directory from the project root:

cd /home/myproject
mv -v repo /tmp/cap-repo

After this, I was able to run the cap deploy command successfully.

I would be interested in hearing an explanation for the [m and :[K output.