[chef] Re: Repositories and git

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

Chef never uses git itself, you upload the cookbooks and other data to the 
chef-server via knife and clients interface with it from there (or, if you 
use solo, it just looks in a local folder of your choosing). If you want to 
use git to version things you are encouraged to (or hg, subversion, etc), but 
it isn't tied in to Chef itself.

--Noah

On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Oliver Beattie wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> This may seem like a really basic question, and I feel I've probably missed 
> some really elemental "aha moment" that most people get within 10 seconds, 
> but I'm struggling to understand how repositories work with git.
> 
> For instance, is it possible to clone the repository and add cookbooks to 
> it locally? When I try it (via use of Knife) I just get an error saying 
> /srv/chef/{something} doesn't exist. I'm assuming to get the benefits of a 
> (D)VCS this must be possible?
> 
> Thanks (and apologies if I'm being terribly dense).