I am trying to do \'deploy:cold\' for my app. The git repo is local to
my deployment server (i.e. I only have one server for everything and I
don\'t host my code on github).
My problem was actually related to a known-hosts problem. All I had to do was make sure the remote git server was in my known hosts (trying to SSH into it for the first time will prompt you to add this yourself), and it worked like a charm.