I'm just getting going with Capistrano and using Tom Morini's shortcut book at O'Reilly. I recommend both Capistrano and the book.
Everything seems to be working fine except for update_current. I can succesfully deploy but not do a simple update_current.
Here is the error message it generates:
cap update_current * executing task update_current * querying latest revision... * executing "cd /home/steveodom/quizical/current && svn up -q &&\n (test -e /home/steveodom/quizical/revisions.log || (touch /home/steveodom/quizical/revisions.log && chmod 666 /home/steveodom/quizical/revisions.log)) && echo `date +\"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"` $USER 43 >> /home/steveodom/quizical/revisions.log;" servers: ["domu-12-31-33-00-01-9f.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com"] Password: ********
[domu-12-31-33-00-01-9f.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com] executing command ** [out :: domu-12-31-33-00-01-9f.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com] svn: Expected 'log' to be a directory but found a file command finished