Here's one reason not to use git for deploy - if you don't want your source code on production servers where clients can access it, or where it could be found b

Here's one reason not to use git for deploy - if you don't want your source code on production servers where clients can access it, or where it could be found by hackers. I work on a closed source system, so we will never deploy our code via git and then build on the server. So, in this case build locally (or on a build server), and rsync from there using deploy scripts.