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Capistrano, despite being written in Ruby, will deploy PHP. I've used it to deploy WordPress and SMF installs once or twice. The advantage here is that you don't have to choose git over svn or any CVS for that matter. You can keep your configs separate and link them in.

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We use capistrano with multi-stage deployment. There is a recipe called "railsless-deploy" that removes all the rails dependent processes (http://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy). We also use the "git-deployment" recipe which does auto tagging of staging and production pushes (http://github.com/apinstein/git-deployment).

+1 for Capistrano, we use it to deploy Rails, Sinatra, and PHP apps. gem install capistrano-ext and you can do easy multi-stage deploys (deploy a different branch to your staging/testing/beta server by doing cap staging deploy vs. cap production deploy for example). More details here: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage

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