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).
If local_repository is set, then Capistrano uses the value of respository from the deployment server and the value of local_respository from the development server. Or something like that.
My configuration worked like so:
set :repository, "/home/#{user}/path/to/repo.git"
set :local_repository, "myserver.com:path/to/repo.git"