How to deploy a project from GitHub to production?

Question

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I took a copy of the production site and deployed it on a local machine. Installed git locally and testing on a test site. Next, I cloned the project on GitHub and now the question arose of how to properly deploy it to the production site.
I tried to clone git clone [email protected]:name/project.gitit, but it did not work, because the folder is not empty (there is an old version of the site)
Please tell me how to implement it?

Answer 1

Connecting the repository is not in the early stages of development, it is always specific. The best thing is to store the project in a new folder, configure everything there and redirect the web server traffic there