Preserve Messages

See Errors & Warnings Catalog for the full index, and Errors & Warnings Guide for a narrative explanation of message categories, exit codes, and common fixes.

Messages from the preserve step, which retains files from a previous deployment in the output directory.

Message	Exit Code	Hint
Preserve step context — new deployment directory: [path]		💡 Confirm this is the new deployment output directory. Preserve only fills in paths that are still missing here — files already produced by this run are left in place.
Preserve step context — previous deployment directory: [path]		💡 Confirm this is the previous deployment (from --preserve-from or atomic's prior target). Listed paths are copied from this tree when they are absent in the new deployment.
ℹ️ Skipping preserve [step emoji] [path] (no previous deployment tree — preserve is inactive for this run)		💡 If you expect files to be carried forward, pass --preserve-from pointing to the last deploy output, or use ssi atomic so the previous target is discovered automatically. On a true first deploy, there is nothing to copy yet.
Old path '[old path]' and new path '[new path]' must be different		💡 The --preserve-from directory must be different from the deploy directory