A promising approach is to use git's subtree capabilities to create a single custom revIgniter Repository that can be checked out using the normal commands to update development and production servers - medium 
# Further reading
This approach is a little more complicated to set up - but it then becomes transparent to the end user.
Here is a recent review with examples:
* developer.atlassian.com
# The Future
Using Livecode's ability to wrap this complexity within our own simple workflow, and the additional simplicity provided by the git-subrepo project - this seems like the best way forwards.
# Short Term Implications
In the short term it means that we can concentrate on creating simple manageably repositories - that make sense in terms of their size and independent nature. We can be confident that it is possible to combine these repos within the revIgniter directory structure in a number of ways. Slowly does it.