- Copy your website to the directory of your choice
- Removes any .git information to avoid publication of sensitive information on your website
- Applies some basic minification to make your website more efficient and hide information (comments)
They are many. This is essentially a utility for basic mostly static websites. Some examples:
- JavaScript website: many Grunt or Gulp plugin perform a much better minification according to your requirements and your RCS repository should not be included in your final version.
- Java JAR: some Maven plugins allow for minification too and, unless badly configured, no RCS information should be included in your binary.