My favorite deploy is using a simple `git pull` instead of scp. I also avoid complex build tools when I can. You either need your built files in the repo or you need to avoid them. Either are fine for my small personal projects. The only real exception I make is keeping any necessary secrets out of my repo. Those get dropped on the server manually.

This also solves the roll-back problem mentioned elsewhere. Just checkout the previous version (as long as you don't make any side effects like DB updates that are incompatible).

I admit, this requires relatively simple software.