[jboss-as7-dev] deployments directory usage with openshift

So right now how a user deploys an application to openshift express is that when they create an application, a side-effect of this is that they get a git repository on their local machine that maps to the server's deployments directory. However, it is only updated by the client actions. The repository is not updated to show status changes in the deployments status files. Here is a client side deployment dir repo that shows two deployed applications: [335](ironmaiden:deployments) > git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) [336](ironmaiden:deployments) > git pull Already up-to-date. [337](ironmaiden:deployments) > ls README.txt weld-permalink.war ROOT.war weld-permalink.war.dodeploy ROOT.war.dodeploy While the server deployments directory has updated deployment status file markers: [root@ip-10-72-59-227 deployments]# ls README.txt ROOT.war.deployed weld-permalink.war.deployed ROOT.war weld-permalink.war The directory on the server is not actually a live repository: [root@ip-10-72-59-227 deployments]# git status fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git it is just a copy that is updated by a git post-receive hook. Currently, to undeploy an application one git rms it and then pushes the content: [338](ironmaiden:deployments) > git rm weld-permalink.war* rm 'deployments/weld-permalink.war' rm 'deployments/weld-permalink.war.dodeploy' [339](ironmaiden:deployments) > git push Everything up-to-date [340](ironmaiden:deployments) > git commit -a -m "undeploy weld-permalink" [master 6bfa575] undeploy weld-permalink 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 deployments/weld-permalink.war delete mode 100644 deployments/weld-permalink.war.dodeploy [341](ironmaiden:deployments) > git push Counting objects: 5, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 279 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 1), reused 1 (delta 0) To ssh://efb401bdb2e641528a1f9278ca091719@as7b4test-sstark.dev.rhcloud.com/~/git/as7b4test.git/ 067829a..6bfa575 master -> master On server: [root@ip-10-72-59-227 standalone]# ls deployments/ README.txt ROOT.war ROOT.war.deployed weld-permalink.war.undeployed This works fine, it is just not as transparent an experience as working with a local directory. I'm not sure how much effort I want to put into trying to map the status deployment markers to the client side repo as I'm going to look at getting the http management interface multi-plexing on the 8080 port and exposed via a rest url associated with the application dns name, in this case it would be http://as7b4test-sstark.dev.rhcloud.com/management. So, the point of this post is to ask if it is worth adding a x.doundeploy marker to avoid having to remove the application content. I'm thinking no, but maybe there are other usecases that would wan this.