[chef] Re: Re: Re: Repositories and git

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

And it should only do that if it detects it is in a git repo anyway.

--Noah

On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Jeffrey Hulten wrote:

> 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...
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Noah Kantrowitz 
> <
 >
>  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
>> 
>> 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).
>>