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Looks like the rsync-option: ... --delete-after is doing that.
That will delete every file, which is not part of the Repository like the .env file.
I'm not sure how rsync handles that if you still use --delete-after with the --exclude=.env, but I'm pretty sure you should give it a try without the --delete-after parameter.

See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rsync.1.html ( Search: "--delete-after")

Update:
I just did a test with the "vendor" folder (since it's common in PHP projects), which shouldn't be deleted after rsync (just for that case).
If I add the --exclude=vendor parameter to the existing parameter list (based on your example), the folder still persist after sync.

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Thanks @AryaSvitkona.

If I add the --exclude=vendor parameter to the existing parameter list (based on your example), the folder still persist after sync.

Did you include the --delete-after option?

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Yes, exactly. See an example below which works for us.

`jobs:
web-deploy:
name: 🎉 Deploy website
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
# to change
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
steps:
- name: 🚚 Get latest code
uses: actions/checkout@v3

- name: 📂 Sync Files
  uses: SamKirkland/web-deploy@v1
  with:
    target-server: ...
    remote-user: ...
    private-ssh-key: ...
    source-path: ./
    destination-path: ~/www/foobar/foobar/wp-content/plugins/pluginname/
    rsync-options:  --archive --verbose --compress --human-readable --progress --delete-after --exclude=vendor`

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