Hi,
I'm also interested in something like this!
I deploy locally from a GitLab Runner installed on my target machine, so the code update consists of copying files to the release path (the repository is already cloned by GitLab).
Do you think your solution could work for me?

Currently, I have to use this temporary solution :

tasks:
  deploy:update_code_from_runner:
        -   select: 'from=runner'
        -   upload:
                src: '.'
                dest: '{{release_path}}'
        -   run: 'echo $(git rev-parse HEAD) > {{release_path}}/REVISION'

    # Déploiement classique si on n'est pas dans le contexte d'un runner
  deploy:update_code_from_git:
        -   select: 'from!=runner'
        -   run: 'deploy:update_code'

  deploy:prepare:
        - 'deploy:info'
        - 'deploy:setup'
        - 'deploy:lock'
        - 'deploy:release'
        - 'deploy:update_code_from_runner'
        - 'deploy:update_code_from_git'
        - 'deploy:shared'
        - 'deploy:writable'

hosts:
  production:
        <<: *production
        local: true
        labels: { from: runner }

It's a problem for you @calebdw if I change that :
From : runLocally("$git archive $targetWithDir -o archive.tar");
To : runLocally("$git archive -C "$($git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" $targetWithDir -o archive.tar");

I run deployer from a subdirectory and git archive creates an archive containing only that subdirectory. So I would like to specify the repository root.

I run deployer from a subdirectory and git archive creates an archive containing only that subdirectory

Why the need to run deployer from a subdirectory? Seems like it's just easier to switch to the root dir and run there.

Anyways, it doesn't really matter to me, it's up to the maintainer (@antonmedv) if he wants to support using this command outside the repo root

All the files about deployment (deployer.phar, recipes, host) are stored in a deploy folder in my repository. So before starting deployer, I move to the deploy folder. In this context, git archive generates an archive containing only the content of the deploy folder.