I completely agree, every time I do a new deployment script for git, I miss the old svn export command, I hate the idea of cloning on the deployment machine, ha

I completely agree, every time I do a new deployment script for git, I miss the old svn export command, I hate the idea of cloning on the deployment machine, having to git sync in the script etc. Whereas 'svn export' feels stateless, and is clean by construction.