[chef] Re: Re: Repositories and git

[Jeffrey Hulten < >]

In think the only time Git is invoked is when you use knife cookbook site 
vendor <name>. It's really only a shortcut for people that use Git since you 
could do all those steps by hand...

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On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Noah Kantrowitz 
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 wrote:

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