Gitlab remote server push on the deploy step does not push new files - continuous-integration

Question

I have the below ci/cd script, (removed the test steps from it which works fine)
Our repo has two branches ready_4_release and master(prod), any feature branch gets merged into ready_4_release and at the end of the week we push the changes into master.
Any feature branch that gets merged into ready_4_release gets deployed into the remote airflow servers,
problem:
When a new MR gets merged into ready_4_release branch the changes are not getting deployed into remote servers but the changes on the feature branch gets merged into the ready_4_release branch, i am not able to figure out why?
When we rerun the deploy step the changes does appear on the remote server(Airflow),
OR when a new MR is submitted the previous changes gets deployed into remote servers.
Below is how the branches are setup in gitlab.
This is how the merge request settings are on the repo
stages:
- test
- deploy
.ssh-connection: &ssh-connection
- 'which git || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install git -y )'
- 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
- 'which rsync || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install rsync -y )'
- eval $(ssh-agent -s)
- echo "$LOTBOT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
- mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- chmod 700 ~/.ssh
- '[[ -f /.dockerenv ]] && echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh /config'
- ssh-keyscan ip-10-0-1-24.ec2.internal >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
- chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
deploy-dev:
stage: deploy
tags:
- prd-runner
image: ${CI_DEPENDENCY_PROXY_GROUP_IMAGE_PREFIX}/ubuntu
before_script:
- echo "Deploying repo dev-data-analytics to Airkube EFS"
- *ssh-connection
script:
- ssh lotbot#10.0.1.24 "sudo rm -r /mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/dev- -data-analytics/"
- echo "${PWD}"
- cd ..
- mkdir dev-lotlinx-data-analytics && cp -R "${PWD}"/data-analytics/* "${PWD}"/dev-data-analytics
- cd dev-data-analytics
# - echo "Git commit id"
# - git show -s --format=%h
- echo "${PWD}"
- ssh lotbot#10.0.1.24 "sudo mkdir -p /mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/dev- data-analytics"
- ssh lotbot#10.0.1.24 "sudo chown -R lotbot:sudo /mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/dev-lotlinx-data-analytics/ && sudo chmod -R g+w /mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/dev-data-analytics/"
- rsync -avu --delete --exclude "*__pycache__" "${PWD}"/ lotbot#10.0.1.24:/mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/lotlinx-data-analytics;
- ssh lotbot#10.0.1.24 "sudo sleep 3s"
- ssh lotbot#10.0.1.24 "sudo chown -R lotbot:sudo /mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/dev-lotlinx-data-analytics/ && sudo chmod -R g+w /mnt/airflow_dags/airkube/external_repos/lotlinx-data-analytics/"
rules:
- if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "ready_for_release" && $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push"'