If you have code that needs to compile, pull in packages, load configuration or for any other reason can't just run in production from a clean checkout, then th

If you have code that needs to compile, pull in packages, load configuration or for any other reason can't just run in production from a clean checkout, then the proper way is to go through a CI server (teamcity, Jenkins, Travis, etc), and have a script that gets from your clean checkout to a package/zip that runs in production.