env values not reflected in provisioned server

[devjk1]

Using v8.0.0-beta for Laravel.

Just started using Deployer, and I am running into an issue during migration during the 'dep deploy' stage. Access is denied for root@localhost. In both .env and .env.example and during the 'dep init' stage, I specified my db user as deployer (default) with no password. When I ssh into my Droplet, the .env values show up as 'root'.
I could change these values manually, but wonder why the local env values are not used on server.
For reference I cloned my repo locally, then locally ran dep init & provision successfully on server, but failed dep deploy. Clearing cache fails when searching for the deployer user on local mysql.

edit: changing db user/pw to user/user in .env, clearing cache, and using user/user during 'dep provision', this resulted in the server's env using root/no pw. Not sure why the mysql user/pw is not being affected. Is deployer using the master branch? I am on a feature branch.

[antonmedv]

run dep deploy -v

[devjk1]

I was able to fix the issue using dep deploy --branch feature/name
Thank you @antonmedv